British Columbia Tips for Visitors.

[w7ts]

Originally Posted by masseyfarm

I finally got around to checking my journal and determined the area of that big frost heave on our 2008 Yukon discovery trip.
The location was in the north lane, 32 miles north of Pelly Crossing, just over the crest of the grade. ( approx.15 miles south of "STEWART CROSSING" ) I believe this is the Goggle shot that does not come even close to the experience/excitement of the ride.
63.230342,-136.528215 - Google Maps

Beautiful country, but take your tools with you.
Dave

I just looked at that link. When I pan out in the satellite view, starting about 5 miles west of that point, the terrain is bright orange. Is that fall foliage or something else going on?

Ken

[masseyfarm]

That orange is the visible YUKON GOLD in the hills.

Not sure, but that area was in the vicinity of the 1995 Pelly River Fire???
Someone from that area may be able to answer for sure.

Dave

[Friday]

Originally Posted by 10Smiles

I have to second the steep grades comments. Several years ago my wife and I were tent camping on Vancouver Island. We were taking a day trip from Port Alberni to Ucluelet. There was one grade that was 18% (yes, that's eighteen percent!!); 8% is steep, 18% is very steep. The hill wasn't very long, but it had turns.

I'll see your 18% and raise you 2%... Dease Lake to Telegraph Creek... perhaps the craziest place in North America an Airstream can go - and also one of the most beautiful.

[masseyfarm]

I can't match you 20% with a picture at the moment, but this trail will be accomplished before I die. (I hope! )

Google Maps

"Highway 20 is famous for the portion of the westernmost stretch, between Anahim Lake and Bella Coola, known as the Hill or The Precipice. From the point where the road crosses the Coast Range via Heckman Pass in Tweedsmuir South Provincial Park at an elevation of 1487 m (4879 ft) the road descends 43 km (27 mi) of steep, narrow road with sharp hairpin turns and two major switchbacks to the Bella Coola Valley. The descent includes a 9 km (5.6 mi) section with grades of up to 18% (about 1 in 6). The road is winding, in some places only wide enough for one vehicle, and in many places bordered on one side by cliffs and on the other side by a drop of hundreds of meters (many hundreds of feet) unprotected by guardrails. Tourists who have driven to Bella Coola from Williams Lake have been known to refuse to drive back and have had to be taken out by boat or float plane"

I might even get to travel that Dease Lake section, on the same trip. I can't wait. We tried to do this in 96 but the ferry schedule changed and we had to cancel to meet other obligations.
Dave

Originally Posted by Friday

I'll see your 18% and raise you 2%... Dease Lake to Telegraph Creek... perhaps the craziest place in North America an Airstream can go - and also one of the most beautiful.

[CrawfordGene]

I wouldn't take the trailer to Telegraph Creek, but we did take the truck. Some of those grades seemed like more than 20%. If you take the trailer, and drive down to the river once you get into town, you may want to leave the trailer there. Getting it turned around would be interesting. There was a nice little restaurant where we had lunch. A photo of it below plus another one "downtown".

I keep seeing Bella Coola on the map and want to go there too someday.

Forgot the photos, will do another post.

Gene

[CrawfordGene]

Here they are: