2009-07-16 50 -119

Thu 16 Jul 2009 in 50,-119: 50.8846973, -119.9212991 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Off a cat track high up on Sun Peaks

Participants

• Rhonda's mom
• Her neighbor

Preparation

When I saw that the geohash point for the Vernon graticule was in sun peaks, I thought it was a beautiful day for a hike. Mentioned to a neighbour that I was thinking of going up to Sun Peaks this afternoon, she came knocking on my door ten minutes later and asked if I wanted company.

Expedition

We loaded up the Jeep with our packs and water and off we drove. Well we also took off the door tops to more enjoy the Jeep experience. Did I mention it was an absolutely beautiful day. When we arrived at the hill we started up right away and came across an electric fence. Neighbor was hesitant to cross this barrier but I figured that this was more to keep the cows off the road and out of the village than to keep us from hiking, so we crossed and carried on. At first we headed up on the wrong trail, but only for twenty feet and decided this wasn't how it looke on the map, so we crossed the fence again. Then had another look and decided that we did indeed need to be on the other side of the fence so, back we went, and started climbing up only close to the original spot. And Up and up and up we went. Then back and forth along the cat tracks. Unfortunately neighbor, had an old quad injury that started to make a lot of complaints, so she headed back down and I continued. Up and Up and Up. The flowers on the mountain were in full bloom and put on a very good show.

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