Wednesday, Sept. 27
2:45pm. Wednesday - Abbotsford, BC. Hopefully I can make it to Prince George today. Still debating between Cassiar Highway or the Dawson Creek way. The first is more scenic, bears + moose, gravel, no centerline, single lane. The second is more popular, more frequented, paved, more rest areas. Hmmm.
3:40pm. Hope, BC. Gas is expeeensive! $0.939 (canadian dollars) for Premium.
A gravel pullout a few miles north of Hope on Highway 1.
(remember to click on these for the full effect)
A couple of hours later. Still Highway 1. British Columbia is stunningly beautiful. My favourite state/province/territory of the trip so far.
Can't remember the name of the town. About 3/4 hours north of Hope.
Still gorgeous.
A quick visit to the rest area restroom and I'm off again. This picnic table sat next to an informative sign lamenting some sort of pine-killer beetle. Red beetle, perhaps? Anyways, the destruction is monumental. Supposedly it'll take a couple hundred years before the trees grow healthy and strong again.
3 comments:
i've heard of that beetle. joshua dg was enlightening us (carmela and i) about it on our way home from sioux falls. very interesting indeed. also very sad.
that's sad...
beautiful pics though!
It's the pine beetle. If you go up in the Cascade mountains, whole forrests are standing dead because of them. A tinderbox waiting for a spark. Almost nothing can kill them--when birds eat them, they come out the other side still whole. Some say that global warming is to blame--we rarely ever get tempuratures below freezing here any more. Apparantly cold is the only thing that will kill them.
Thanks for the pictures of B.C. It's good to see the "normal" scenery through other people's eyes sometimes. If you see such astounding beauty every day, you grow numb to it.
Was the town Golden?
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