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09-04-2017, 10:05 PM
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Location: back 40, bc
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Re: post up your camping pics
any rail buffs?
there used to be a railroad (Kettle Valley Railway) running up through the Coquihalla, from pioneer days till around '59 or '60 i belive. was just too expensive and tough to keep open, slides everywhere constantly and immense snows, plus a "easier" route threw the Fraser Canyon. there is quite a bit of the old railbed left up here, which is used by atv'ers, sledders, hikers, bikers. it passes through some beautiful country, quite a bit of what i have posted is off the KVR. me and the kid went for a short but sharp hike to the Ladner creek train bridge today. from the bridge down to Hope has got some of the best features. There is the Othello tunnels, 5 tunnels blasted right threw the mountains with 5 bridges between them over the Coquihalla Canyon, very impressive area. been there many times, we went there today, but there was like 7 or 8 chinese tour buses with about 2 bajillion chinese everywhere....  Rambo First Blood was filmed here, where Stallone launches himself off the cliff cool old film of one of the last trains to run the KVR. Ladner bridge looks much better then...lol it starts not too far from my house at Ruby Creek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw3bRlFkJqY also found some old web pics of the Ladner bridge. old school, what safety lines...  |
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09-04-2017, 10:11 PM
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Re: post up your camping pics
some more of the bridge
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09-04-2017, 10:17 PM
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Re: post up your camping pics
passed this nice sub on the way out
turned off at Carolin mine, up to Ladner creek the Coquihalla hiway over Ladner creek |
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09-04-2017, 10:24 PM
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Re: post up your camping pics
we have to get up to the old railbed, steep and rocky, but not very far.
up to the hiway some lose rock at the beginning then it turns into about a 50 degree trail |
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09-04-2017, 10:27 PM
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Re: post up your camping pics
then we hit another rocky area
and some more steep stuff... |
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09-04-2017, 10:31 PM
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Re: post up your camping pics
and here we are pretty quickly at the railbed....
here's a big old concrete retaining wall that held up one section of the tracks... |
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09-04-2017, 10:37 PM
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Re: post up your camping pics
found part of an old railroad tie after a quick 20 min hike we hit tunnel #11, on the other side of this tunnel is the Ladner bridge |
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