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Another successful summer tour

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This year we went into British Columbia twice on two seperate tours, all great fun and the weather was excellent. Heres some photos from the trips.

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On the ferry leaving Shelter Bay with Rick, Sundial member H2Rick.

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On the ferry with Tom, Darcy and Fred, Sundial member Buffalo Guy.

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The view of Arrow lake from the ferry.

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At the campground office in Erickson with Bruce and Rick.

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A visit to Kootenay Trout hatchery in BC.

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Some of the fish in the holding tanks.

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At Chain Lakes Park in southern Alberta.

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The morning before leaving on the second tour in southern Calgary. Ricks Bandit and my Bandit ready for another tour.

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Al and Rick with bikes at the ferry landing in Kootenay Bay.

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Bikes on the Osprey 2000 ferry as it leaves Kootenay Bay landing, BC.

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Kootenay lake from the ferry landing.

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Arriving at the inlet on Kootenay Lake.

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At the Lake View store near Gray Creek, we stopped here to wait for a friend to come down from his summer home in the mountains nearby.

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At Christina Lake, BC.

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Al, Dave and Rick on the ferry return journey from Balfour in the evening.

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Arriving in Balfour, BC

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In Osoyoos getting a 2016 map from the visitors centre, we wanted to see if any roads were updated. Al and Rick appear to know where they are going.

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In the town of Grand Forks, BC.

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The northern entrance into the town of Osoyoos.
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Fabulous photos cant beat a good road trip .......unless you have 2 road trips!
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Looks outstanding!!!
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It would be nice to get in on one of these trips some day :up:
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Suzukidave wrote:It would be nice to get in on one of these trips some day :up:
Agreed Dave! I was all set to sign on a few years back, until I realized it would be a 3,000 mile ride just to get from where we're at to their starting point! Someday you will have to swing by my place and we will make that long trek. Looks to be very scenic from the pictures Allan. Thanks for sharing.

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Looks like a superb trip, hopefully the weather was as kind as it appears in the photos. Thanks for posting those!
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Hey Allan,

Another successful journey by the look of things. You always seem to luck out with the weather - certainly makes biking more enjoyable.

Thanks for posting. I think it's great when members share photos of their rides. After all, this is what the beasts were built for :up:
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Thanks for all the comments, yes the weather was excellent and there was no rain, so the conditions as seen in the photos are definitely correct. I used to do those summer tour rides in western Canada on one of the Buffalos but it got tiring visiting gas stations in every town you came to.
Since most places are around 100 miles apart, you know you will need gas in every town. To add to that everyone else had more modern bikes which made just keeping up with other riders even worse on the fuel economy aspect of things.
These two trips in total were approx 2500 miles of riding, a decent bit of fun indeed and another year well spent having some great bike touring.
I just had another successful bit of riding in North Carolina last week, so I'll see about getting some of those photos up as well shortly.
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