Saturday, August 11, 2018

Purden Lake Provincial Park, east of Prince George, British Columbia, Canada


I've stopped here before. It's a nice campground on a lake about 4 hours west of Jasper.

I have 3 days to get from Jasper to Hyder, a distance of about 650 miles. Going halfway would be OK, except there's no camping anywhere near the halfway point, so I'm doing it in 3 steps.

I fully expected the campground to be filled. It's a summer Saturday and this place is less than an hour from Prince George, a town with a population over 70,000. Last time I was here, coming back from Alaska in 2013, I got the last site available. This time, the first-come-first-served sites were about half filled.

Obligatory campsite picture:




Anyway, it's been cooler but grayer and still hazy. Here's the lake:




There's a trail that goes along the edge through deep forest:



Talking to people today, it seems there is a big fire north of Hyder. I'm not surewhat that'll mean for me, but we'll see.


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