Archive for August 27th, 2009
Road Stats:
Miles: 1,133.6 Days: 19 Flat Tires: 1 (on Sunday the 16th leaving Bellingham) Broken Spokes: 0 (was lucky to catch a dangerously loose one just before the Great Divide, lucky because I heard an odd ping and decided to stop and check. It is hard to hear much of anything with traffic noises and considering [...]
Posted: August 27th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
Tags: beer, Bellingham, days, flats, Great Divide, miles, spokes, stats
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The dangers of camping in Hinton.
I camped last night, and intend to camp again tonight (seeing as I’ve already paid), at Hinton Centre Campground. This is an amenity provided by the city of Hinton. The town stretches along a corridor defined by the Canadian National rail-line and the Yellowhead 16 Highway. Kind of strip-mall, Canadian Tire, Wal-mart, the usual assortment [...]
Posted: August 27th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
Tags: bicycle thieves, Hinton, miscreants
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Retrospective: Met a self-described nomadic Christian…
…named Zephyr, coming up Loup Loup Pass between Winthrop and Okanagon. Red hair, bushy beard, wearing a long denim smock with a poofy-shouldered, light-blue dress-shirt underneath. He had a floppy-brimmed, brown, cotton hat too.
Posted: August 27th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
Tags: bananas, garlic, Loup Loup Pass, nomadic christian, tea, water, Zephyr
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Tyler and Mel of the Hinton Voice
Tyler and Mel of the Hinton Voice The following brief interlude of blog-postings is courtesy of Tyler Waugh and Mel Ewasiuk of The Hinton Voice: Hinton’s Locally Owned Weekly Newspaper. The Hinton Voice is a recent start-up local paper.
Posted: August 27th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
Tags: bears, Hinton, Hinton Voice, Melynda Ewasiuk, Tyler Waugh
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As far as Hinton…
Sunday, August 16, 2009 (92.2 miles) Bellingham Sudden Valley Sedro-Wooley Marblemount Newhalem Gorge Creek Campground (Free National Park campground just outside Diablo) Monday, August 17, 2009 (73.6 miles) Gorge Creek Campground Rainy Pass (4600′) Washington Pass (5477′) Winthrop Pearrygin State Park Tuesday, August 18, 2009 (90.1 miles), Hot 102ºF Pearrygin State Park Winthrop Twisp Loup [...]
Posted: August 27th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
Tags: Alberta, Avola, Barriere, Bellingham, Blue River, British Columbia, Clearwater, continental divide, Diablo, Falkland, Gorge Creek Campground, Hinton, Jasper, Jasper National Park, Kamloops, Kelowna, Little Fort, Loup Loup Pass, Marblemount, McLure Ferry, Monte Creek, Monte Lake, Newhalem, Okanagan Falls, Okanogan, Oliver, Omak, Oroville, Osoyoos, Osoyous Lake Veterans Memorial State Park, Pearrygin State Park, Penticton, Pocahantas, Rainy Pass, Riverside, Sedro-Wooley, Sudden Valley, Summerland, Tonasket, Twisp, Valemount, Vernon, Washington Pass, Whistlers, Winthrop
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