"Hey Sandy, how about ghost towns, old gold mines and all on a Mt. bikes, so you want to go". Bill Lowe 1996AD
Late September of 1996AD Sandy and I spent a week up in the very southern tip of Chilcotins Mountain Range in Bridge River Country
The Hurly Road goes up out of Pemberton Meadows over the "Hurly" and down to GoldBridge.
The hydro electric dammed Downtown Lake looking north
Looking south back towards Pemberton
Kingdom Lake were we camp out for two nights.
The first morning we rode our bikes up to the Mcgillivary Pass
trail head. The following pictures are of the old mining roads.
Bendor Mountain Range
South shot of Downtown Lake
In this picture Sandy is making a fire at Mcgillivary Pass trail head. We had some lunch here and talk about going up the trail and how much time we had before it got dark. The next thing we could hear something coming down the trail, it was a ATV with a man and women on it. They looked at us and he turned off the engine. I said " Hi how far to the pass?" He said "You don't what to go up there! There is a mother grizzly with it's cub about a mile and a haft up the trail. So we changed our plans and rode back down the road to our camp site.
This was the mining town of Pioneer Mine This ghost town at one time had hotels and many
gold miners, now it looked like maybe one home is still there
Fire wood bike
Carpenter Lake
These
following pictures were taken while we went up Taylor Basin Mining Road
We were so happy
to find this cabin at a old mining camp, because in was starting snow and it
would be a very cold night at 6200 ft above sea level.
Sandy said "look there are shutters
to stop the bears form getting into the cabin" I said that they were to
stop the snow from coming in. There was a guest log book in the cabin that some
people had wrote that in the winter there was over 20 feet on snow here, and
they would dig down to the cabin stay here even over Christmass. Sometimes there
over 15 people in this little cabin. Taylor Basin is big for snowmobile skiing.
Sandy the mountain man
Sunrise
at the cabin
Lucky Strike Mine Sandy in Taylor Basin
The upper part of the basin and start of Taylor Creek
Taylor Pass 7300 ft
These two pictures were taken at about 8000ft
Looking north towards
Spruce Lake area
Riding horse trails in Eldorado
Riding up and out of Eldorado
Carpenter Lake
Come on Sandy lets go again!
In the morning we could see and hear big horn sheep
running up and around the mountain in the back ground of this picture.
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