CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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curated scenic road. Coast Mountains, lakes, canyon. From Whistler it runs 171 km to Lillooet; allow about 3 h 28 of riding. It goes by way of Pemberton and Duffey Lake Road. The highest point is about 1,800 m. The line favours views over speed.
Slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did. Water arrives beside the road and stays for 37 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go.
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Whistler began as an idea in the 1960s, when a group of Vancouver businessmen decided that a mountain north of the city might host an Olympic ski area, and it ended as one of the largest winter resorts in North America. The village itself is purpose built, a pedestrian maze of shops, bars and hotels at the foot of two mountains, Whistler and Blackcomb, joined by a gondola called Peak 2 Peak that spans a huge gap between the summits. The name comes from the hoary marmots that whistle from the rockfalls, and the surrounding land is the shared territory of the Squamish and Lil'wat peoples, whose cultural centre in the village is worth an hour.
Read the complete Whistler write-up.
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Duffey Lake Road point 1 sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Duffey Lake Road point 2.
Pemberton sits in a flat, green valley surrounded by high, jagged mountains, a short distance north of Whistler, and it feels like a different world from the resort next door. Mount Currie, a rugged peak with a grey crest, towers over the farmland, and the Lillooet River winds across the valley floor. Farmers here grow seed potatoes, which are prized for their disease-free quality, and the fields with their neat rows are the first thing you see on arrival. The town has about two thousand people, a few cafes, a brewery and a laid-back air.
Read the complete Pemberton write-up.
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Duffey Lake Road point 2 comes up 30 km in. Next is Duffey Lake Road point 3.
60 km in you reach Duffey Lake Road point 3. Next is Duffey Lake Road point 4.
Duffey Lake Road point 4, late in the day. Next is Duffey Lake Road point 5.
Lillooet announces itself as a change of climate. You come down from the mountains of the Duffey Lake road, with their dark spruce and old snow, and within an hour the land has turned to sage, dry benches and bare golden slopes above the Fraser River. The town sits right on that river, in one of the hottest and driest corners of British Columbia, and a summer afternoon here can feel like Spain has been dropped into the Rockies.
Read the complete Lillooet write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Duffey Lake Road point 5 sits at 171 km, late in the day.