total km: 404.5
Today's ride was a joy. It was downhill all the way except for Sunday Pass, which is only a mole hill compared to Allison Pass.There were cops all along the way catching speeders in every direction. Apparently it is a very dangerous highway, and they have upped the security in the past few years.
The final descent into princeton is STEEP!!! Even the cars only go like 30 km/h. We had to take breaks every 2 km or so so that our rims and tires wouldn't overheat from the constant applications of the brakes.
Princeton is pretty cute, and was a nice pitstop. We camped at pretty little campground where we set up right on the Similkameen river. It was also sunny all day! The wind rips through the valley pretty hard though, so we were by no means hot.
At the campground we met 3 other young guys who were also less than bike savy. They had been travelling slowy, because 2 of the last 3 days they had spent walking their defeated bikes along the Kettle Valley trail. They walked for 6 hours on the second day!!!! We felt pretty fortunate to have not met that same fate.They told us that so far, the trail had been pretty rough. Seeing as how we were planning on taking the trail the next morning we were hoping, and were told (not by the most reliable source) that the next segment of trail would finally be paved, or at least hardpack gravel.
Our first of many glimpses of an alpine marmot
B & K
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