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| A little brisk this morning in Edson |
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| Things were a little frozen, a scraper wasn't quite doing the trick, I could of used an ice pick! |
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| Leaving Edson. For the next few days, I am on a different journey. While the relay moves from Edson to Hinton to Jasper, I am taking shuttle 4 (a bus that is not being used right now) to Prince George, B.C., where I will drop it and then fly home to Summerland for a week off. The trip today is about 539 kilometres. |
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| 3 kilometres down, GPS instruction pretty easy, make a left in 536 K! |
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| Getting close to the Rockies again! |
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| As much as I love being part of the 25th anniversary Rick Hansen relay, there is something to be said for going for a cruise on your own, listening to some good tunes, and enjoying the scenery! |
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| Hinton, Alberta, "Gateway to the Rockies",(population about 9,600) site of the End of Day Celebration for Day 207 |
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| Now it's getting good. |
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| not as much so as your would think for this time of year. |
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| Roads were really good as well............ |
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| Spoke to soon, a few kilometres east of Jasper, it started to get really slippery. |
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| I decided to cruise past Jasper, it is worth the visit, but I have been there many times before. |
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| Slicker than clean socks on a waxed floor! |
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| but beautiful all the same. |
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| And another milestone, the British Columbia/Alberta border. |
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| At the B.C. border is the start of Mount Robson National Park, it borders Jasper National Park in Alberta |
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| Crossing the border did not make the roads any better, I saw numerous vehicles in the ditch along this stretch of the Highway 16 |
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| It was still a breathtaking drive |
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| I was hoping the clouds lifted a little bit so I could get a good glimpse of Mount Robson. The last couple of times I have been through this way, you could not see the peak. |
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| This is the view coming towards the entrance to Mount Robson . |
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| Mount Robson, 3,954 metres, or 12,972 feet high. |
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You have to take my word for it, I could almost see the peak.  This is on a good day! |
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| Then the road got a whole lot better heading towards McBride, B.C. |
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| Crossing the Fraser River, the longest river in B.C. |
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| That is quite an advertising statement. |
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| I only stopped for coffee! (Esso is the relay choice!) |
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| McBride is an old railway town, that was formed when the old Grand Trunk Pacific Railway was being built. I have stayed here before when I was working for a tour company. The population is a whopping 660 people. The relay will be stopping there on day 209 |
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| Just a really special day! |
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| Life is a highway............ |
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| Cruising down into Prince George, population about 71,000 |
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| This could be either the Fraser or the Nechako river, which flows into the Fraser. |
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| The traditional downtown shot. (tradition on my blog, anyways!) |
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| Day 208, while the relay crew is still in Hinton (where apparently there was no snow), I awoke to a winter wonderland in Prince George, where it snowed close to 4 inches. |
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| At the airport, grin and bear it! |
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| The good news was it was sunny, and the temperature quickly rose above freezing. |
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| Small market means small plane. There is no direct flight with Air Canada to the Okanagan, so it was a flight to Vancouver then another one to Penticton. |
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| Just outside of Prince George |
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| Somewhere between Prince George and Vancouver |
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| Those little sticks down there are actually freight and container ships sitting outside of the port of Vancouver. |
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| From the great white north to the "burbs" in 1 1/2 hours |
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| Hanging at the airport for a couple of hours, free wifi, time to catch up on some bloggin!" |
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| Back in the air, heading out towards Penticton |
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| Over the mountains between Hope and Princeton. |
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| Touchdown! |
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| Penticton for the next 7 days! |
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