KETTLE VALLEY TRAIL

The Kettle Valley railway was the tie that bound the Kootenays to the rest of BC.  It started at Hope and went all the way to Midway, a total of 325 miles.  The building of the railway started in 1910, finished July 31, 1916

Myra Canyon
Sixteen trestle bridges cross along a 18 mile stretch of railway.  Myra Canyon was destroyed in the Okanagan Mt. park fire in 2003.  It officially re-opened June 22, 2008.  All trestles have been re-built to historical specifications using BC wood and labour

I have not seen the trestles yet....... a good hike for Joe and I

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One beautiful sunny morning

Lyndsay, myself

Hunter and Gwendolyn

took a walk along the

Kettle Valley trail 

We drove to an area then 'hoofed' it along the trail

The horses were oblivious

to us

This is a straw bale house

What a view from the trail

Okanagan Lake in the background

Rows and rows of grapes with

mesh nets protecting the

grapes from birds

We met up the doggie daycare lady

Hunter sometimes goes for a day

Gwendolyn and Hunter visited when

we were in Windsor

You can count on me to find

this pit stop!

Sorry, you can't come in

not enough room

As I walked the trail

I kept thinking about the train engineers

How they would have loved this route

Yeah

We see the tunnel

As we came around each turn

I expected to see the tunnel

But

it was a long time coming!!!!

Imagine the work that went into getting

through this rock

and

building the track way back in 1910

What a magificent view coming out of the tunnel

Thank goodness cars are allowed on the trail

Lyndsay and Hunter jogged back down the trail

to pick up the car

as

Gwendolyn was plum tuckered

So could not make it back down

Gwendolyn and I slowly walked along

In the distance we saw two deer

however

they hip hopped down the slope

before we could catch up to them

It was quite the walk

a good morning