Oct 18

A few days earlier, I was on Trip Advisor, which is a great travelling tool to find out about an area. Looking up the Kelowna/Okanagan Valley area, I was checking out the top attractions in the area. Number one attraction was the Myra Canyon Trestles. It sounded intriguing. A trail for cyclists and hikers comprising 18 trestles and 2 tunnels over a 12 km one way old rail bed. It was once owned by the Kettle Valley Railway and opened in the early 1900’s as a means of transporting ore and copper from the mines in the north. In 2003 there was a large wild fire that destroyed several of the trestles so the trail was closed until 2008 to rebuild. Anyway, enough history.

It took us about ½ hour to get to the “entrance road”, which was an 8 km gravel washboard in some spots. After another 20 minutes, we pulled the bikes off the rack and away we went. It was a bit cooler at that elevation, but smelling the fresh air and Douglas Fir and other evergreens, made it all worth it.

Kathy was a little leery biking over the trestles, but soon mastered it and started enjoying herself. After a 2 hour round trip (20 km) – we had crossed all 18 trestles (twice), we returned to the RV to a tail wagging Jazz and had lunch. It was an amazing bike ride with only a 2 deg grade on the way back.

We returned back to our camp for a little work to be done. Washing an RV takes a little longer than your car, but after 3 weeks, it needed it. Once finished it was time for R & R and some wild BC sockeye salmon for dinner. Tomorrow is another day of chores heading south to the Penticton area for the night on Monday.

We’ll squawk to you tomorrow!

Look Mom – one hand

Yes, Kathy is in the picture (like where’s Waldo)

There’s the RV on the other side of the canyon

One of the rebuilt trestles

Looking down at Okanagan Lake