Whistler to Sun Peaks

Friday morning, we left Whistler and after a 40 km detour for the Brandywine Falls that were closed we headed north on Highway 99 to go to Sun Peaks.

We used the chance to stop at the next falls and hiked 1.5 km along a steep creek to the Nairn Falls.

In Pemberton, we filled the tank and then crossed about 100 km of Alpine "No Man's Land" with no settlements and only some people going out there for snowmobiling, ski trekking and cross-country. Our car brought us safely through. When we stopped for lunch, a bird landed on the car peeking in for some bread crumbs.

Then we changed highways to Caribou Highway and later to Trans-Canada Highway (#1) and crossed vast areas of land. We passed some scattered houses, cars and farms.

mobile watering systems

We stopped at another view point from which we had a splendid view, only a sign warned of some dangerous animals. So we left in a hurry.

In Kamloops, we moved to Old Highway 5 and after some twenty km took a turn to the right and drove uphill for 32 km until we arrived in Sun Peaks. Our hostel was situated right at the beginning, but the GPS did not know the address, so we missed it the first time. After checking a tourist map we found it.