Alaska Day 24-390 k

 

Rode hwy 97 to 100 Milehouse, yes that’s a town, following 2 orange KTM bikes. My GPS was screaming at me to turn left. I banked away from t he KTM”s and soon was on an old paved road with little traffic….this was the best bike road i had been on the entire trip. thirty k later i meet hwy 24 and the GPS summons me to turn left. At Brooks Lake I pull in for gas and meet up with the Ktm riders who went a different way. These two are the same guys I met at Destruction Bay Yukon….remember I posted their pic……they had ridden north to Inuvik and where heading home to Kelowna BC.

The Gps diects me back on to 24 south and I soon pull over and take a snap  

As you can see the fields are flooded. I am instructed to turn off 24 by the Gps and find myself with no traffic on a lovely paved road and no traffic. I am in a valley surrounded by low forested mountains with cattle farms and long green grass. Why are they irrigating, I wonder. I come upon a roads worker and stop and ask him. He says they usually get little rain in the valley though this spring has been an exception. 

This is where I meet the gr gravel road, turn righ

t and follow a logging truck foe 20 k to the mill. This was a very scenic ride high above the lake you see running along a mountain ridge.

THE MILL

I am now in Revelstoke, waiting to break camp it is raining. O this sucks.