We saw that highway 16 into Kitimat opened up late Saturday afternoon so we got the motorhome ready. Ron got the call for the 7 day job at 2 p.m. Sunday and we were on the road an hour later.
We fueled at Le Paz in Aldergrove and drove through sun, clouds and rain. The Fraser River at Hope was very high and running very fast. It certainly was the 'muddy Fraser' coming down through the Fraser Canyon with all the silt, uprooted trees and debris. The trees on the banks had water up their trunks. The sun came out at Lytton, the junction of the Fraser and Thompson rivers, one brown and the other blue/green. It was beautiful driving through the greenish grey sage brush country. Lytton/Lilloette was 'mile 0' the start of the road up to the goldfields back in the 1850s. I was disappointed that there were no mountain sheep at Spences Bridge. Sometimes they're right down on the road. Stopped for the night at 7:10 pm. right on the highway in front of the Bear Claw Lodge, a lovely log restaurant and motel outside of Cache Creek.
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