Posted by Ryan | Filed under British Columbia, People
Our arrival into Vancouver marked the end of Canada for us. Both Yukon Territory and British Columbia were sorta hilly slash mountainous. In fact, we averaged 2054 meters (~6700 ft) of climbing a day since starting the trip on July 5. So you might be able to imagine that we’re hoping the coast has a little [...]
Posted by Ryan | Filed under British Columbia, People, Route
The decision to take the Fraser Canyon turned out to be quite easy because wildfires blocked our way even if we had wanted to head through Whistler. Plus finding out we’d encounter smaller mountains and views almost as beautiful basically sealed the deal. What we didn’t know is that the route would provide headwinds that [...]
Posted by Ryan | Filed under British Columbia, Route
Last night we stayed with Kayle and Kelly – two couchsurfers in Prince George, British Columbia. I’ll detail our couchsurfing in a later post – but the ending to this experience deserves its own. Alex and I finally got out of town at 11:30 this morning. The weather finally cooled down today, so we were [...]
Posted by Ryan | Filed under British Columbia, Route
Two days ago Alex and I pedaled for 109 km into a headwind. Our goal that day was 140 to get to Jade City, BC. When we saw Boya Provincial Campground we looked at eachother and knew that we’d be sleeping there that night.
That left us with almost 160 km yesterday to ride in [...]