This weekend in Whistler it is the Tough Mudder competition.  We thought we would be able to watch some of the craziness, but it doesn’t look like it will work out.  The events are not taking place in the Village but it is in Whistler Olympic Park.  A 30 minute drive from the Village.  We heard who we assume were Tough Mudders up at 6:30 this morning at our hotel.  They sounded excited for their day.  We on the other hand wanted more sleep.  🙂

We decided to go back to Pure Bread for our second cup of coffee and another frittata muffin to work on the Sun crossword before returning to Aava Hotel to check out.

We hit the road about 10:30 and head north towards Pemberton.  After we pass through Pemberton and it’s valley we are now officially on the Duffy Lake Road.  The views are absolutely stunning!!  I have no idea why we have never done this drive before.  Here are a number of photos.  Most of them I shot from the moving car.  There were far too few view points to stop and take proper Stu photos.  Click on one photo to being the slide show.

Stunning mountain ahead of us

Notice the large rocks on the right shoulder and then ahead the hairpin turn. The photo is a bit fuzzy, but it was a moving car. 🙂

More stunning mountains

This shows the mountain side covered in netting to protect us from the falling rocks.

This is a beautiful part of Beautiful British Columbia.

And more

The motor cycles love this road

Another shot. I just kept clicking the shutter!!

Heading into Lillooet

Just outside of Lillooet the mighty Fraser flowing below us.

Just outside of Lillooet, a gravel section of the road

More mountains and the river

One of the few pullouts on this road

We had leftovers from our dinner last night so we stopped at Marble Canyon to have our lunch

This is Clinton. Interesting little Garage/Museum with a Studebaker, Austin Minor and Nash Metropolitan

This is some of the burned out forest from last years wild fires

Another stunning mountain

Here is a large birds nest on top of the power pole

Interesting log cabin along the highway

I think this is “Big Sky Country”

A one at a time bridge.

Interesting slide formations

We arrived in 100 Mile House about 3:15 and checked into our reserved motel.  Later we walk across the street to Jake’s Pub & Grill for dinner.  It is 6ish on a Saturday and the pub is very quiet.  Stu has a great burger and I had a nice chicken salad.  We chat with the waitress about the fires of last year.  She tells us she moved up here a few years ago from Surrey.  Last year she said she packed up her guns and ammo, also her dog and it’s food and got out of town before the official evacuation order.  She said it was aweful, which we remember from the news reports from last summer.  She also said that many people evacuated and never came back.  It was a devastating financial hardship on the town.  She and the rest of the town and the rest of the province hope that this year will be different.