RetiredJake
Junior Member
Sunday, 6/28
This was a lazy day. Did not break camp this morning, planning on a day ride and returning to Fort Steele this afternoon. Tomorrow (6/29) is Million Mile Monday and I plan a long day for that. For all the HOG members on the forum, do not forget to logon tomorrow and post your mileage.
This morning I rode to Radium Hot Springs, about 120 km north of Fort Steele. The community turned out to be rather touristy, and really not worth the ride. The scenery however, was pretty decent. The Rocky Mountains are on the right, busting out of the level valley floor. There is no gentle transition, it is valley, then it is mountains. On the left, another mountain range (I believe the Brooks Range) closes in until there is only a mile or two between them. This happened back in the last ice age when the glaciers were doing their thing. The result is a pretty flat and straight (hence the poor ride) valley hemmed in between the two ranges. This area is called the Columbia Trench. Very beautiful to look at, lousy to ride.
At the start of the trench, is Columbia Lake, the headwaters of the Columbia River. View points along the way provide some beautiful views of the lake.
As you get into the trench, there is one section on the right where the face of the mountain has fallen away, erosion perhaps?
The rivers scattered throughout this part of British Columbia are meandering multi-channel rivers. The type to set a fisherman’s mouth watering.
This is in Radium Hot Springs. Like most of the area, it is flat, with the Rockies on the east just jumping out of the valley floor.
I was looking for a post office as part of my ABC’s. What I found every time was a red post office deposit box, no building that we would think of as a post office. Different cultures I guess.
Wherever you go on this road (CN 95), you are presented views like this.
I guess the scenery makes up for the poor riding. It is pretty, and should be seen, just don’t expect a normal mountain ride.
After I returned to Fort Steele, I headed down the small road that runs past the campground. The Bull River runs through this valley, and is as pretty a stream as I have seen. I’m a sucker for these multi-channel rivers, they really get my blood pumping.
I will be taking the road along the Bull River out to CN 3 tomorrow morning on my way east. This bare topped mountain caught my eye while I was out there this afternoon.
That’s about it for today. Have a couple more cold ones, call it an early night (however, it is light until 2230 or 2300 here right now) and get a good start on a long run tomorrow. Here’s to all of you that wish you were here.
This was a lazy day. Did not break camp this morning, planning on a day ride and returning to Fort Steele this afternoon. Tomorrow (6/29) is Million Mile Monday and I plan a long day for that. For all the HOG members on the forum, do not forget to logon tomorrow and post your mileage.
This morning I rode to Radium Hot Springs, about 120 km north of Fort Steele. The community turned out to be rather touristy, and really not worth the ride. The scenery however, was pretty decent. The Rocky Mountains are on the right, busting out of the level valley floor. There is no gentle transition, it is valley, then it is mountains. On the left, another mountain range (I believe the Brooks Range) closes in until there is only a mile or two between them. This happened back in the last ice age when the glaciers were doing their thing. The result is a pretty flat and straight (hence the poor ride) valley hemmed in between the two ranges. This area is called the Columbia Trench. Very beautiful to look at, lousy to ride.
At the start of the trench, is Columbia Lake, the headwaters of the Columbia River. View points along the way provide some beautiful views of the lake.
As you get into the trench, there is one section on the right where the face of the mountain has fallen away, erosion perhaps?
The rivers scattered throughout this part of British Columbia are meandering multi-channel rivers. The type to set a fisherman’s mouth watering.
This is in Radium Hot Springs. Like most of the area, it is flat, with the Rockies on the east just jumping out of the valley floor.
I was looking for a post office as part of my ABC’s. What I found every time was a red post office deposit box, no building that we would think of as a post office. Different cultures I guess.
Wherever you go on this road (CN 95), you are presented views like this.
I guess the scenery makes up for the poor riding. It is pretty, and should be seen, just don’t expect a normal mountain ride.
After I returned to Fort Steele, I headed down the small road that runs past the campground. The Bull River runs through this valley, and is as pretty a stream as I have seen. I’m a sucker for these multi-channel rivers, they really get my blood pumping.
I will be taking the road along the Bull River out to CN 3 tomorrow morning on my way east. This bare topped mountain caught my eye while I was out there this afternoon.
That’s about it for today. Have a couple more cold ones, call it an early night (however, it is light until 2230 or 2300 here right now) and get a good start on a long run tomorrow. Here’s to all of you that wish you were here.
