Princeton, BC

We are on the Kettle Valley Railway trail again. Today Julie and I started from Princeton, BC.

The old rail bed is a source of pride for the town, they have the trail head all prettied up.

We started out toward Coalmont, with no plans to actually ride that far.

Before we had biked very far we found that it was breakfast time at the Osprey Nest.

About 2 km into the ride we came to a tunnel.

The tunnel was pretty nice to ride through.  It had a paved surface and electric lights!

Shortly after the tunnel, we crossed the Similkameen River.

Shortly after crossing the river the paved path turned to gravel.  Julie's 2" wide knobby tires handled it well, my fixie's 28c road tires were a bit more dodgy.

 We had started out early this morning, in hopes of seeing some wildlife.  Julie was a bit afraid of surprising a "bahr".  I was hoping to see at least some deer.

We turned around about a mile after the trail had turned to gravel.  The hoodoos seemed to be a good point for turning around.

We rode back to Princeton.

Once in Princeton it was easy to know where the trail went.

The last spike for the Kettle Valley Railway was driven near here.

The last bridge to be built was named the Bridge of Dreams because it was the culmination of the dream of building a railway across Southern British Columbia.

The trail continued on up the valley.  Along the way we were entertained by a pair of Yellow Bellied Marmots.

We rode to the end of the pavement near a sawmill.

It was a short, but great ride!

.........Road Bike.....Rollers.............MTB..........Lifecycle......Total
Today .........10................0..................0.......................0...........10
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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........310...............0..................0.......................0...........310
YTD...... 2018.............0...................0.......................0..........2018