After a relatively lazy couple of days, today we punished ourselves with a walk around Myra Canyon. The drive up to the canyon was reminiscent of the road at Lake Shuswap that had defeated us a couple of days ago - a mostly unmaintained dust road, filled with potholes and covered in skiddy gravel. This time we persevered and after a slow trundle, we eventually arrived in one piece.
The walk around Myra Canyon followed the route of the now long-gone Kettle Valley Railway. Around the slopes of the steep canyon. The area had mostly been destroyed in huge forest fire in 2003, and this was evident in the still-standing burnt tree stumps that surrounded the car park. Thankfully the forests in the rest of the canyon were well on there way to recovery, and covered in Christmas-tree-sized firs.
Not so lucky were the old railway trestle bridges that we were led over during our walk. There were eighteen of these, and while some were the original railway trestles, some had to be reconstructed after the fire.
The walk was quite flat apart from a short but steep detour which had to traverse due to two of the trestles being closed for maintenance. After a few hours of walking, we finally crossed the eighteenth trestle and sat down for a sandwich before heading back the way we came. This was our longer walk yet, covering just over fourteen miles before we limped back into our camper.
After a painful drive back to the campsite, we forced ourselves to have a late shower before collapsing into bed.
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