Journey on.

After we disembarked from the ferry at Horseshoe Bay, we took the Trans-Canada highway from Vancouver to Shuswap Lake, where we wanted to camp next.

Driving through Vancouver.  The photos were taken through our windscreen.

Inside the Cassiar Connector.

“The Golden Ears Bridge is a six-lane extradosed bridge[2] in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia. It spans the Fraser River, connecting Langley on the south side with Pitt Meadows and Maple Ridge on the north side. The bridge opened to traffic on June 16, 2009. The bridge replaced a previous ferry service several kilometers upstream and will be run by a private consortium, the Golden Crossing General Partnership, until June 2041.[3]” – Wikipedia "The bridge is named after the Golden Ears peaks of Mount Blanshard in Golden Ears Provincial Park. The name was chosen in a community process."- Heidelberg Materials

Golden Ears Bridge, BC Canada.

"The Golden Ears Bridge was a project initiated to support the traffic of the Vancouver Olympics of 2010."- KB Tech "The city is renowned for its natural beauty and cultural diversity. For thousands of years the Coast Salish people have called the area now known as Vancouver home, and their history and cultural traditions, deep respect for nature, and spirituality are all tightly woven into the city’s cultural fabric." - Hello B.C. On a clear day, Mount Baker can be seen from Vancouver.  “Snow and ice-covered Mount Baker, located in northern Washington, is the highest peak in the North Cascades (3,286 m or 10,781 ft) and the northernmost volcano in the conterminous United States.” – USGS  "Mount Baker is the youngest volcano of a larger, multivent, volcanic field that has remained recurrently active for the past 1.3 million years. It is located in Washington State about 50 km (31 mi) east of Bellingham Bay and 25 km (16 mi) south of the international border with Canada. Volcanism at Mount Baker is related to subduction of the Juan de Fuca plate beneath the western coast of North America".- USGS At Merritt, we took the Coquihalla Highway.

Great Bear Snow Shed, Coquihalla Highway. BC

“The most impressive structure on the Coquihalla Highway, the Great Bear Snow Shed is located in one of the highest snowfall regions of the Province. with a total length of 920 feet (280 metres), and 36 foot (11 metre) high portal walls, the structure shelters 6 lanes of freeway traffic from the threat of snow avalanches.” – CWMM Construction

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