KVR Trip — Day 4

The last day. See ya man!

As always, the last day is a little sprint around Otter Lake. Now you guys can get back to school so you can do more algebra or whatever it is that youmiss so much there.

At least they have figured out how to ride as a group to make things easier.

Well… some of them did.

Why you don’t want to be last guy out there.

Almost done, Z.

The bridge too far…

After we sent the boys off, the guides all headedup the road the other way to suss out next year’s route. We want to change it up a bit to make it more interesting.

Here’s my only wildlife shot of the week. I saw lots of bears, eagles, ospreys, vultures, and lizards, but I’m just too slow on the draw these days. Age I guess…

It’s an amazing valley for scenery. There’s a ton of barns out here.

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KVR Trip — Day 3

I guess I didn’t mentionthat the guys got super choked at me yesterday. I had to tack on a couple of extra clicks to the ride because of a construction project out on Thirsk Lake. It was only about 3 k, but man they were upset. Oh well.

To make today more intersting, we set up a little relay race on this mini track just outside of Coalmont. First place got a nice ice cold six pack. Of Coke.

Here’s David coming in for the transfer.

..and the winner is…

Here’s a LINK to a vid of the action. Like it really matters. This is all that’s important to you at 15 years old.

Oh, and of course it snowed and rained a bit today. Here we are at the Otter Lake camp where we met up with Mitch, Lindsey, and the other group.

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KVR Trip — Day 2

This is my favourite part of the tour. The Tulameen Canyon. Some tunnels, some trestles, some cliffs, its all good.

Hey Martin, look up will ya?

Lunch is at the Tulameenie Falls. We saw a bear just before this…well, Z, Thor, and I saw it anyway.

This is the tunnel you can see in the background of the last shot. The guys are looking over their shoulder there because Thor has just eaten it…on a railway grade. Too funny (OK, one of the other guys, maybe Z, hid in the dark and scared him, but still….).

The peloton got a bit more spread out after lunch.

..and then it was time to go swimming. Hows the water there bud?

Oh its cold you say? How cold?

Ohhh…..THAT cold. Check HERE for some video action.

This campsite sucks.

Totally.

The local residents came out to tell ghost stories. they’re not exactly scary or anything, but it’s a side of Canada that these guys would not ordinarily get to see, thats for sure.

Boo!

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