time being a small correction: on the map of the last report of 18.6. the route is not blue, but apply to green. The card I have replaced them as the other cards should now be enlarged by double clicking.
RELATED TO OUR
In our family, Monica and David, we spend in Maple Ridge, a suburb of Vancouver, some 60 km from the city center, a social weekend. You live in a pretty little house, surrounded by trees and shrubs and flowers that grow without significant intervention. There is practically no pests, and pour you rarely have to. Esther is very excited, not least because of the incredible number of berries that grow wild throughout the area. It would be in their collective zeal a threatening competitor for the bears! We owe it the way that have bears in the Engadine no livelihood.
There's Father's Day on Sunday and our welcome, Monika invited guests: the parents of David, his brothers and sisters Hazel and Jim with spouse, his friend Ken with spouse, their son Mischo with girlfriend and her two children. David perfectly grilled and Monika has prepared delicious dips and salads. Even Esther eats a steak. We sit outside in the sun.
We spend the night in the RV on the forecourt of the house and halfway under the branches of a maple.
extends beyond the road the track of the CPR (Canadian Pacific Railway). Almost every hour a train goes by, ie one Freight train, pulled by two 12,000-horsepower diesel locomotives and pushed by a third, between about 100 wagons with two floors of containers. The roar of the locomotives bring our RV to vibrate, and the old bumpy wagons make him tremble, and we experience an earthquake of medium intensity. For this, it does give a warning about five minutes. From a distance, that is a beautiful three-tone horn is heard, which is increasing but so that we will soon have to keep one's ears. The horn will sound ¬ in a volume that brings us an IV suspected hearing loss. Urs is glad he no longer listens so well. What nostalgic sounds from a distance is near a nightmare of almost chasing us out of bed. The second night, therefore we spent in the house. THE FRASER VALLEY and the Cariboo Wagon Road or
A LESSON IN HISTORY
On Monday, 19.6. Peel us our RV with two screens from the maple tree and drive on, first on the # 7, then on the TCH 1 (Trans Canada Highway) to the Fraser River in an incredibly broad river valley with numerous tributaries, deep blue lakes, lush green meadows , forests in all shades of green. On either side rise wooded hills. In the hills there is still lots of snow. At Yale, the river valley narrows. The once booming town of fur traders and later the gold rush, is today an insignificant village with a dozen houses have become. Precisely why we visit the small museum, which is shown to us by an old, very friendly man. He informed us in detail about the history of the place. Who is not interested in history, read the next chapter!
Simon Fraser came as the head of a 21-strong expedition was the first white in the spring of 1808, led by Indians from the north here. He was commissioned by the North West Company, a way to the Pacific. Severely disappointed, he returned when he was not as hoped on the Colorado River to the Pacific arrived, but just on this river, which was later given his name, to Fort George (now Prince George) back.
Of 1848, the Hudson Bay Companies (HBC), the Fort Yale as a fur trader station. Despite the warnings, the Frasers HBC tried by the Fraser Canyon to create a connection between the interior and the coast of British Columbia. As always pack animals perished in the canyon, the Fort Yale was closed.
1858 Yale found below on both banks of the river of gold. Within weeks came 30,000 miners, mainly people who had been disappointed in the Gold Rush in 1849 in California, here from Yale, and made a rough, booming city which represented a real threat to the British.
1862-1864 was the Royal Engineers, a corps of soldiers, known as sappers, the famous Cariboo Wagon Road from Yale to Barkerville built, a feat that was called the eighth world wonder. It is over 600 km long. On their trail we'll ride the next day.
began in 1880, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) with the construction of the trail Port Moody - Kamloops. Base of operations of the engineer Andrew Onderdonk was Yale. With 30,000 workers - including 6,500 Chinese who had to work at half pay - within four and a half years, the line with 27 tunnels and 600 bridges and trestles' completed. There were many deaths, especially among the Chinese, three Chinese per mile paid with their lives. 1911-1914
built then the Canadian National Railway (CNR) on the other side of the river, a new Line. Both are used today, in my experience the left for the descent, the right for the ascent.
Then we drive along the Fraser River and visit the old Alexandra Bridge to which one descends from the parking lot of the TCH on the old Cariboo Wagon Road. We have to cross the tracks of the PCR. Boards warning of the trains, which is not necessary. You hear them for miles in advance! The suspension bridge was swept away by floods in 1926 and created for the Fraser Canyon Highway new to the automotive market. Since 1962, when the TCH was built, it is no longer used.
The Hell's Gate, so named by Simon Fraser, the bridges over here on 26/06/1808 and leaders passed by, a cable car down to the other river bank.
We choose the sporty variant and walk the 170 meters on a small routes down and the small suspension bridge over the restaurant where we ordered a fine, huge Caesar salad with smoked salmon. The river is just 34 m wide, but (now) 45 m deep! flow up to 15 million liters of water per second. For the salmon - it should during the campaign salmon swimming up to 350,000 per day - a complex fish ladder was built, enabling the fish to swim up at any water level. This measure was necessary to become ¬, when a rock fall during construction narrowing of the railway in 1914 the canyon and had blocked the fish the way to their spawning grounds. In Lytton we see the confluence of the Fraser River and Thompson River - the first out brown water, the other crystal clear. Both rivers have their source in the immediate neighborhood near Jasper. The 1360 km with much longer Fraser River flows from there first to the northwest, then west and south from Prince George.
will then move along the Thompson River is fantastic. The wide band of clear, because many small rapids gushing water - a paradise for river rafting - is lined on both sides of a railway line. We travel times on the left, sometimes on the right. The climate has changed greatly from Lytton: It is dry and warm, even in Lytton 26 °! The mountains have sparse pines, most of them are sick, the ground is bare, eroding the rocky river bank. By 18 clock we are before Clinton. The small, clean private Pine Campground Clinton like that. We have everything, even wood for a Camp Fire is available in abundance! So we kindle a fire in the evening as on 1 August and soak up some warmth for the night. We are glad that we are far away from a railway line - we think. In the evening we hear our Plaggeist, the CPR, but he is far away!
THE GREAT FOREST DIE
learn on Wednesday we are the cause of the diseased pines.
A only last year established by the roadside information board deals with the issue Föhrensterben. The mountain pine beetle (a kind Föhrenborkenkäfer) came over the last few years more than 7 million hectares of pine forest (lodgepole pine tree). The past few winters were too warm, so that 80% instead of 10% of larvae survived the winter. The beetle is indeed part of the ecosystem: it usually affects mature trees and promotes the growth of young shoots. Now he also has healthy trees infested, you must make early on. Reforestation requires a great effort. are still way two thirds of the 944'735 km2 province of British Columbia (larger than France and Germany) covered by forest, 25% are pines.
IN GOLDWAESCHERN
Barkerville is the northern end of the Cariboo Wagon Road, named after Billy Barker who discovered here in 1862 to a rich vein of gold, which triggered the Cariboo Gold Rush.
Barkerville was the largest city 'west of Chicago and north of San Francisco. For two days we saw on the roadside again evidence that this Ghost Town Sightseeing # one of the BC. So we want to visit them. And we will not be disappointed! Already on the journey we marvel at the incredible fields of daisies, the roadside in bright red Indian Paint Brush flowers and deep blue lupines. A real beauty. Barkerville itself is a living museum. 130 houses have been rebuilt, some of which we can visit and learn a lot about the lifestyle of that time.
We participate in a lesson, watch the farrier at work, a homemaker seen on the old wood stove to cook, listen to a woman about the outrageous food prices, complain, etc. On a hike through the surrounding area we found, fortunately, a gold nugget. come this way to unimaginable wealth, we change our itinerary: We will sail on his return from Alaska from Skagway by boat to the beautiful, the northern part of the Inside Passage and will then consider whether we use the proceeds of the gold nugget but we do not buy a beautiful log cabin in northern BC. In any case, we will keep the readers informed. 
0 comments:
Post a Comment