Hello everyone! This is going to be a really short entry, and it'll be without pictures for the time being - that is, until we find a place where we can hang out for a while and download some of the jillions of images on the camera. Might not be for a week or so. Hope you can wait.
In the last four days we've ridden from Banff to Sparwood, which is a smallish town near the BC-Alberta border on Highway 3. You might know it as the home of the world's largest dump truck. You'll see pictures, I promise.
The riding has been exhausting and wonderful. Most of it has been on gravel - a few sections of bike trail and a lot of backroads. We left Banff along the Spray River Trail, and then took the Goat Creek Trail to connect us to the Smith-Dorrien Spray Lakes Road running south from Canmore. The Smith-Dorrien brought us through incredible mountain scenery - as good as the Icefields Parkway, I thought, but without the traffic. From Peter Lougheed Provincial Park we grunted over Elk Pass into BC, and from there, we rode the bone-shaking Elk Valley Forest Service Road down into Elkford. After Elkford it was a beautiful, smooth ride down Highway 43, with a gorgeous detour on the Lower Elk Valley Road through open forest and ranchland. And now we're here in Sparwood - and about to leave for Fernie, thirty-some kilometres down the road.
We'll try to provide a more detailed update sometime in the next couple of days!
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