Nugget City to Bell Lodge 300 miles

We had a bad start today. Mac came to my room at 6:15 and woke my roommate Paul. Paul always leaves later in the morning, so he wasn’t happy. I then rushed to get out of the room and keyed the coordinates for today’s destination wrong. So Mac and I left without breakfast or coffee, went 16 miles in the wrong direction, turned back and found the right road then had to go 151 miles to find a café and finally coffee. I was very cranky by then and the only reason things got better was hat the roads and scenery was actually he best so far. The Cassier Road is only lightly traveled. It has rough sections and no gas/food stops so only travelers or serious Canadians use it. It is 285 miles of windy pavement between thick green forests of loblolly pines and Aspen groves. Many of the mountains are still snow capped in early August, some are glaciers. Lakes, rivers, and streams are around every turn. The morning chill turned to afternoon warmth. I had to shed several layers.Tonight’s accommodations are in a heli-skiing complex that runs 7 months a year. This range of the Rockies gets an average of over 100 feet of snow yearly. And it is a dry powder!
See the slideshow of the route.