Steep slogs and stunning sunsets.

The day started out with an (unfortunately) appropriately named hill... Six Mile Hill. It wasn't quite that long, but close enough.
That's the elevation spike you can see to the left in my watch:




We'd kinda planned for it though, as we stopped for the night previously at the tiny town of Topley, where we refreshed ourselves with Gatorade at the wonderful Grizzly Jim's General Store, and then with a great proper hot meal (on a plate!) at the café next door.




The night was spent at Mark Zagwyz's place, a local photographer, who has a camping area for travelers. I spent a good hour talking about photography and gear with Mark, and it was great to see some if his stunning wildlife images.

Knowing the hill was around 3 miles away, meant we could warm up a bit before hitting it, and it was just as well we did, as it was a thigh-busting, lung-burning steep 7 to 9% grade.

It was currently being re-paved too, so whilst we were battling up it, we were also quite pleased with how gloriously SMOOOOOTH the surface was... And as always, the effort was rewarded with some KILLER-SWEET-SWEET-SMOOOOOOOOOTH DOWNHILL..! Yes, we flew down the other side alright!

We ended the day, after around 75 miles, at the slightly larger town of Fraser Lake.
One big fat Subway Sammie later, we rolled down to the lakeside for some free city-rec-park camping. Complete with running water & flushing toilet bathrooms. Fraser Lake certainly made the grade in our book.

The sunset was late (after 10pm) but wonderful, with most of the camp-folk and RV-ers out a taking pix. Tom and I both shot a bunch with our Nikon DSLRs, but I also put the excellent Hitech Filters Camera app on my iPhone to good use, using a digital graduated ND filter setting to help the colours show better...


As always, I'm a sucker for a sunset...

More soon.

RWK.

OUT!

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