Rain, rain go away. Come again
another day. In spite of this we made our start by 8:00.
Another drizzly day to begin our
return trip. But it was intermittent rain rather than the steady variety. The
road surface for the first part of the day wasn’t great, with big potholes and
water on the road. A fair amount of the Cassiar HWY has no line markings making motorcycling in the rain more challenging. It made for a slower ride to stay safe.
More bugs and bears describes
today. Again today we were fortunate enough to spot 7 bears. They are not even
bothered by the cars. Just keep munching away on the grass at the sides of the
road. Norma made a challenge to try to get as many bear images on the GoPro as
she could. So her protocol was: 1. identify the bear in the distance (it could
be a rock). 2. Turn on the GoPro by pressing the button on the camera mounted
on the top of Doug’s helmet and hope it beeps and whistles in time to start
before the bear has passed. 3. Hope that as the bear passes Doug isn’t having
to look somewhere else to deal with a road hazard. Attached are a couple of the
results today.
With regard to the bugs: Norma
has a bit of a reaction issue with blackfly bites, something we don’t see much
of at home. Hopefully we will be out of their territory soon.
We kept seeing the same two guys,
one on his bike and the other in a truck with a bike in a trailer behind. They
were attempting the Dempster HWY, had a critical breakdown and were on their
way back to Penticton. We saw them again at our lunch stop. This time homemade
mushroom soup at the Meziadin Junction and it really was a soup
day!
When you see how isolated
everything is you can appreciate why the First Nations locations are COVID
restricted. Historically they have had problems with outside diseases. And it
is harder to get to medical help. Having said that we just saw a Facebook post
that one of Norma’s previous ER nurses is at one of the settlements we just
rode by: Iskut, where the roads in are blocked with dumpsters.
Tomorrow we return to Prince
George.
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| Typical Cassiar HWY view from the saddle. |
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| Avalanche |
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| Iskut Settlement-note roadblock. |
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