🚀 go-pugleaf

On Apr 19, 10:57 am, gojogo <yoj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Howdy All,
> I'm an upstate NYer trying to figure out the best touring roads in
> your neck of the woods for a 3-4 wk solo trip this August.  I've never
> been to eastern BC (got as far as Revelstoke a few yrs ago) and would
> love any advice/info regarding less-trafficked cycling routes outside
> of Vancouver.  My Surly and I greatly appreciate it.

Here's a 3-week solo trip I did in 2001:

Day 1:  depart Vancouver, ferry to Nanaimo, overnight in Bowser
Day 2:  ride to Campbell River
Day 3:  ride to Woss
Day 4:  ride to Port Hardy
Day 5:  ferry to Prince Rupert (15 hours)
Day 6:  ride Rupert eastward, camp out beside Skeena River
Day 7:  ride past Terrace, camp out beside River
Day 8:  ride to New Hazelton
Day 9:  ride to Telkwa (awesome touring cyclist overnight stop, just
awesome)
Day 10:  ride to Houston
Day 11, 12, 13 wait in Houston while new barcon shifters FedExed up
from Vancouver (STI broke!)
Day 14:  Finally leave Houston, ride to Burns Lake
Day 15: ride to Vanderhoof
Day 16:  ride to Prince George
Day 17:  ride to Quesnel
Day 18:  Ferry across river, ride through quiet ranch country,
different ferry back to Williams Lake
Day 19:  ride to Lac la Hache
Day 20:  ride to 70 Mile House
Day 21:  ride to Cache Creek
Day 22:  ride to Spences Bridge
Day 23:  ride to Yale
Day 24:  ride to Abbotsford
Day 25:  home to Vancouver

Throughout much of BC, the only way from point A to point B is to take
the main highway, and share it with the rest of the traffic.  There
are few side roads because of the mountainous terrain.  That said,
though, most highways have good wide paved shoulders so sharing the
road is rarely a problem.  Avoid Hwy 99 from Vancouver to Whistler.
It's deadly for cyclists.

Good places to go are the Okanagan and Cariboo (follow Hwy 97 from the
US border to Prince George).  These places are flatter than a lot of
the rest of the province and there are more opportunities to explore
side roads.

If you can manage to get to northwestern BC, Hwy 16 from Terrace to
Prince Rupert will knock your socks off.  Wide, incredibly scenic, not
to much traffic.  You can take the ferry from Prince Rupert down to
Vancouver Island and ride back down and hop on a second ferry back to
Vancouver.

I don't know what this "case law" is that the other poster referred
to, about keeping to gravel shoulders only.  I have always ridden on
the paved shoulder everywhere in BC and have never had a problem.

--
K.

Lang may your lum reek.