Columbia & Western Bike Tour

We spent 4 days cycling on the C & W rail trail from Castlegar to Grand Forks. Meghan did a proper job describing our trip on her blog, so I'm using that as an excuse to just post pictures with a few captions. Which is really no different than any of my blog posts. So, here we are with a pile of stuff and some bikes. And hello! I have mom biceps from carrying 20 pounds of cute around. Oh yeah.

 Lower Arrow Lake

 Throwing rocks into the water is very popular.

 James' stylin' wooden fender.

 Naptime

 One of several trellis bridges.

 Looking down to the treetops from a bridge.

 Snack time

 M&M love.

 Riding in style.

 Carrying our bags around a washout.

 Headlamps on for the 1km tunnel. The tunnel is totally straight except for a slight bend at the west end, so when you ride east to west it is pitch black for most of the ride.

 Tree frog settled into a hole in the ground. Is this common behaviour? It seems rather un-tree-frog-ish to me.

 Farron Station.

 Passing under highway 3.

 Old retention wall - impressive stonework.

 Another washout, but this one had a replacement bridge.

 Old irrigation system.

Meghan and Cassia hanging out on the beach.

This was our favourite campsite, located on the Kettle River - lovely sandy beach, warm swimhole and sunshine. As a bonus there was knapweed mixed in with the grass - I know, it's a terrible invasive weed, but it was just prickly enough that Cassia didn't want to crawl on it. We could put a ground sheet down and she wouldn't leave it.

 Mystery plant - anyone out there in internetland know what this is? I even asked my local plant expert and he was stumped.

 Bridge over the Kettle River

Looking down on the Kettle River.