Rob-n-Hild, oot and aboot eh? Sorry - 2022
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Prince George - Cache Creek (449 km. 5 hours. Elevation maximum 1,205) |
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Another driving day today - but the first day we haven't gone West as
today we drove basically south in British Columbia from Prince George
to Cache Creek. Still quite a bit of up and down, however, with the
max height of over 1,200 m and the lowest about 450. Max (our GPS)
recorded that we ascended 3300m today and descended 3,470. Which is
about right as Prince George was about 610 and Cache Creek is 460.
It was a nice drive through a lot of farm land along the Fraser River and then as we left the river and climber higher it was back to pine forest. There were a lot of lumber trucks on the road and they are all loaded the same way so it seems like we are seeing the same truck over and over again! 
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Following Mynd's comment on whether our tetris-packing skills are still good,
we show a photo of Mary Jane's boot. At least it is full, and so is the back seat.
No room at all for hitchhikers. The question dates back to 1998 when we packed up Lionel
the Landcruiser for our Perth-Darwin Aussie drive. Lionel is seen in the right photo.
Read more about 1998 Lionel the Landcruiser and Tap-Tap go Walkabout |
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| On our way towards Cache Creek we stopped in Quesnel for a bio-break as well as a photo opportunity at the World's Largest Gold Pan. The usual bit of fiddling to get the perspective right, and voila - our best efforts - Rob takes the best photo: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| This town also seems to be proud of their 4-day festival called Billy Barker Days. They commemmorate the life of Billy Barker, a Cornish sailor (altough we suspect he was a Cornish miner). During the gold rush he staked a claim with 6 friends in a supposedly empty lot. They annoyed the old-timers by digging in stead of panning for gold. After digging 16 metres they struck gold and in 30 centimetres they extracted gold worth $600,000 in 1862!! A lot of money. That's when it all went wrong for Billy Barker: he married a woman who enjoyed spending his money and left him. He died penniless in 1894. Doh. Poor guy. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hild found a lovely park to have our picnic lunch - Centennial Park
in 100 Mile House. The road is a an old gold-mining supply route during
the Cariboo Gold rush (1862) and
lots of supply houses were built at set distances from Lillooet and these are now
the names of the towns - 150 Mile House, 141 Mile House, 108 Mile
Ranch. 100 Mile House is quite a big town now and the park was a
really nice place for our lunch, with a winding stream mown on one
side, making a nice lawn with picnic tables, and left wild on the other bank.
The attraction wasn't just their picnic tables, but also that they had roofs since there were quite a few rain showers floating about. It was quite cold too, as can be seen from Hild's fleece + hood + jacket. After lunch we walked around the nice park but skipped the extended hike to an upstream waterfall and campsite. Lazy tourists today. |
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| On our way out of town we found the world's largest skis - or at least they looked like it - Finnish Karhu brand and all! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The next stop was a detour suggested on Google Maps. Sometimes,
Google Maps is a bit wonky with roads and junctions, but there are
often interesting points noted which would be hard to find
otherwise. One of these was just called Chasm and turned out to be a
really big, deep gorge 300m deep, 600m wide and 8km long
(according to the BC Parks website). As we drove up, we met a
British couple just leaving and we had a short walk (just over 1k)
and then met a Dutch cyclist on her way up to Williams Lake. That is
a long way, but she looked well prepared.
Google teaches us that a chasm (gorge, abyss) is a deep, steep-sided rift, gap or fissure - while canyon is a valley cut in rock by a river. The view to the bottom of the chasm was great, and the rock formations were very colourful. |
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| We arrived at our motel in Cache Creek - a small town which we are staying in because Kamloops was full/expensive due to this being Victoria Day weekend. The town is nice - if small with just over 900 residents. There is just the one grocery store, but it has everything - a mini Canadian Tire really. The evening called for a walk down to say Hello to Cariboo Sam, order pizza from Anie's, and explore the local recreational park while waiting for pizza. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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