We ended day 1 at the Brookside RV Park in Cache Creek with campsites, pool, WIFI, and showers - all for $17ea Canadian (Canadian money is almost par with US$). We elected to cook at the park and Neil had Dinty Moore Stew, Tim2 had a dried camping meal that he reconstituted with water, and Tom & Tim enjoyed Chicken ala King (another camping meal) which was actually quite good.
The ride up was incredibly scenic and BC99 is a motorcyclist's dream. It follows the fjord for a long while. Eventually we headed up and over a very scenic pass and along the way near Pemberton we encountered some very dense and dangerous tar snakes. One simply couldn't avoid them and the m/c tires really slipped on them.
Temperatures were consistently in the high 80's farenheit which is very hot for this part of the world. I believe the high was 92f. We were in our vented clothing and took numerous stops for fluids. Who would have thought it to be this warm this far north?
We saw one very ugly deer. It was black and brown mottled kinda like an Australian shepherd dog. 3/4 saw it. Fortunately it stayed on the shoulder of the road. Our critter sighting rules are that two Amigos have to see a critter and since Neil & Tim2 saw the squirrel (Neil just missed hitting it). So we have tally of 2 for day 1.
The SPOT tracking seems to be doing well. It will cut out in the mountains and we do make U-turns. So don't be alarmed if there's no signal for a while or we seem to be backtracking.
Our plan for tomorrow is to depart around 7am and go as far as New Hazelton and camp in that area.
Stay tuned.
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I've heard, from you, of snow snakes but you're not gonna fool me with the "tar snakes".
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