BC High Country area (BC) Vacation Pictures

This is a lake in the Kamloops area.

Here is a view of the Fraser River on the highway just north of Lillooet. There are many better views of the river; but it is hard to find places to stop because the road is very narrow and there are no places to stop.

Here are views of the Fraser at places from Vancouver to Lillooet.

Town of Hope

They shot the Slyvester Stalone movie Rambo - First Blood here.

Here are some pictures from along the Fraser river valley

This is the Fraser River Valley. If you look closly you'll see train tracks on both sides of the river and the highway on the eastern (left) side.

This is the Fraser River just south of Lillooet.

The road between Lytton (Lord Lytton) and Lillooet (wild cooking onions that the natives traded) has this very special place called The Slide. It was originally an 8 foot wide road where you all you'd see out of the window was the drop to the driver with the wreckage of a car or truck below. Being only wide enough for one car ment that if two met someone had to back up. Some people dreaded that so much that they'd take Duffy Lake Road instead back to Vancouver (itself also a very dangerous road then).

This is the Thompson river. Notice that it is not muddy like the Fraser. At this point in the trip I've turned off of the Trans-Canada highway and I'm head to Lillooet.

Duffy Lake Road

The following map is from a web site about the same cycling trip I did.

At this point I turn west and take Duffy Lake Road to Whistler and Vancouver. The bridge had been burnt down and I was able to continue because a smaller bridge could take bicycles. Lillooet is right in the valley by the river and it had a good grocery story. But from here; all roads west have to climb the mountains. Duffy Lake Road was an old logging road that was paved in early in the 1990's. By 1999 it was a heavily used road by tourists; in particular those blasted RVs. It was a nice quiet 80 km road of nothing but you and the wilderness and since then it has become increasinly developed and clogged with pollution spewing monster vans.

Here is some info about Duffy Lake Road from locals.
It was first paved in 1985 for the Vancouver exposition in 1986. In the 60's the road was refered to as 2 feed of mud covered by 3 feet of snow and it was astonishing when a VW Beatle make it thru in the late 1960's. Bears have been spotted in the area.

This is Duffy Lake and a river along Duffy Lake road and a view towards the costal mountains in the early morning.

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