Kamloops

I was in Kamloops this morning for the wrap up breakfast for the Rocky Mountain 1200. I have no pressing plans for getting home, so talked Julie into going for an easy ride.  The visitor's information folks suggested "The Rivers Trail" a multi-use path that skirts the North and South Forks of the Thompson River, and also runs along the main stem of the Thompson River after those two forks merge in town.  It sounded good to us.

We had some trouble finding the trail, it seems that despite map information supplied by the visitor's association, the trail is not contiguous.  We eventually found it and pedaled off in search of adventure.

Julie says "I don't need no stinking helmet on bike paths"

We saw quite a bit of wildlife in our short ride.  It seems that we have been surrounded by Marmots on this trip.  At Lake Louise we saw many Hoary Marmots. We figured it was nature teaming up with my friend John Henry "Hoary Marmot" Maurice and making a few friendly jabs at us.  Today we saw Yellow Bellied Marmots.  I guess that might be construed as a return jab on our part.  ;-)

We also saw a pair of deer.

We even saw some bat condominiums, but thankfully did not see any bats during the daylight hours.

There were countless geese and ducks, and a hawk.

The path had not been well marked.  We searched at seemingly dead ends, and sign posts that directed us onto busy roadways with no shoulder for considerable distance.  We finally turned around when our path turned to gravel.  Julie's Mtn Bike could handle that, but my narrow tired fixie would be a handful.

We thought about riding back to the car and continuing on in the other direction.  But when we arrived at the car a rather sketchy looking guy was milling aimlessly around in the area.  We decided to at least move the car to the other side of the river and pick the trail up there.  The path continued to be elusive and after a couple of missed opportunities, and busy traffic, we decided to grab some ice cream and hit the road for Princeton.

It was another good bike ride, but not quite as good as the others this week.

.........Road Bike.....Rollers.............MTB..........Lifecycle......Total
Today .........11................0..................0.......................0...........11
Jan...............0................0...................0.......................0............0
Feb..........124...............0...................0.......................0...........124
March......277................0..................0........................0..........277
April......559................0..................0........................0..........559
May.........414...............0..................0.......................0...........414
June........337...............0..................0.......................0...........337
July........300...............0..................0.......................0...........300
YTD...... 2008.............0...................0.......................0..........2008