After thinking about the alternatives my plan is to do Whistler and Vancouver Island over the next couple of days.
I can’t find the map right now that I marked the route on. I’ll add the image later if I find it.
I left Prince George and drove south on BC97. This was a stretch of road that I drove on the way north. A lot of farmland and ranches. It was country that I thought was pretty wild a couple of weeks ago, but now it seems like coming back into civilization.
I can’t find the map right now that I marked the route on. I’ll add the image later if I find it.
I left Prince George and drove south on BC97. This was a stretch of road that I drove on the way north. A lot of farmland and ranches. It was country that I thought was pretty wild a couple of weeks ago, but now it seems like coming back into civilization.
I haven't mentioned yet the number of RV's I've seen on this trip, particularly on the Alaska Highway. A lot of the smaller motor homes are rentals. A lot of the big motor homes are towing a vehcile of some sort. I saw one motor home the size of a bus towing a Hummer. I figure it was costing him a dollar a mile in fuel to haul all that iron up the highway. I don't know if the RV traffic is down because of the price of fuel or not. I do know that every time I filled up, people were talking about it.
As I get further away from the Alaska Highway, the RV of choice seems to be a large pickup with a pickup camper. I'm guessing these are the locals. I've always thought this was a good, practical configuration, but you don't see it much on the East Coast.
Around lunchtime I got to Williams Lake, a town I stayed in going north. So I stopped at the Laughing Loon, where I had that great dinner. Ta da… They still had the wasabi encrusted prawns.
To get to Whistler I turned on to BC 99 when I got to Cache Creek. BC 99 is called the Sea to Sky Highway. The stretch to Whistler follows the Fraser River for a while, then cuts into the mountains. From there, it’s 100 miles of narrow, winding, mountain road that crosses countless mountain streams on one lane wooden bridges, and has waterfalls coming down right next to the road. Just what I was looking for. This might be the most scenic stretch of road I’ve been on. British Columbia would be a great place to come back to.
The road starts to come out of the wilderness at Pemberton. Pemberton and Whistler are both big centers of outdoor activities. (If you’re not aware, Whistler is one of the primo skiing locations in North America). Even in the summer, they’re busy.
I hadn’t realized (or I’d forgotten) that Vancouver is the site of the 2010 Winter Olympics, and Whistler is going to be the home of the skiing events. There’s lots of building going on and you can already by 2010 Olympics gear.
Whistler is like a big village centered around the major ski lifts. Most everything was open and it’s pretty busy. Seems like a lot of foreign accents around. I’m at a Best Western right off from the village “green”. Got a great rate yesterday from the whistler.com site.
Tomorrow I’ll head towards Vancouver, but before I get there I’ll take the ferry over to Vancouver Island for a day.
To get to Whistler I turned on to BC 99 when I got to Cache Creek. BC 99 is called the Sea to Sky Highway. The stretch to Whistler follows the Fraser River for a while, then cuts into the mountains. From there, it’s 100 miles of narrow, winding, mountain road that crosses countless mountain streams on one lane wooden bridges, and has waterfalls coming down right next to the road. Just what I was looking for. This might be the most scenic stretch of road I’ve been on. British Columbia would be a great place to come back to.
The road starts to come out of the wilderness at Pemberton. Pemberton and Whistler are both big centers of outdoor activities. (If you’re not aware, Whistler is one of the primo skiing locations in North America). Even in the summer, they’re busy.
I hadn’t realized (or I’d forgotten) that Vancouver is the site of the 2010 Winter Olympics, and Whistler is going to be the home of the skiing events. There’s lots of building going on and you can already by 2010 Olympics gear.
Whistler is like a big village centered around the major ski lifts. Most everything was open and it’s pretty busy. Seems like a lot of foreign accents around. I’m at a Best Western right off from the village “green”. Got a great rate yesterday from the whistler.com site.
Tomorrow I’ll head towards Vancouver, but before I get there I’ll take the ferry over to Vancouver Island for a day.
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