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Midway to Penticton, June 9 - 12, 2008

"In the spring of 2008 our group of eight young-at-hearts cycled the Carmi subdivision of the Kettle Valley Railway."

"We spent four days on the trail, leaving Midway at about 9:30 Monday morning and arriving in Penticton on Thursday afternoon at about 2:30. Our overnight stops at Beaverdell, Idabel Lake and Chute Lake were determined mainly by the fact that we were not camping and required some form of genteel accommodation."

"It can be done faster (or slower) than we did it but we weren't in a race nor trying to prove anything."

"Our bikes varied from knobby-tired mountain bikes with front suspension to thinner-tired cyclo-cross bikes with no suspension. Each showed strengths and weaknesses at various times, depending on the terrain and railbed conditions."

"We met other cyclists, lots of day-trippers in Myra Canyon and a couple of backpackers walking the Trans Canada Trail (of which the KVR is a part). We found out that Monday is a bad day to arrive in Beaverdell (everyone takes it off and heads into Kelowna to go shopping) but then discovered how nice everyone was in opening their businesses up just to feed us."

Five years after the Myra Canyon fire, greenery pokes through the grey of the fire-killed landscape

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