Day22 : Hope : the town of Rambo and chain saw

Manual Lathe machine at Ashcroft Museum

Copper Hauler at Askcroft Heritage walk

Hell's gate Gondola

Rambo

Orthello tunnels

We are at Hope, the town of many fames. I will post more pictures tonight. It is a pretty town of 6000 people surrounded by the mountains . The town is center of agricultural and dairy activities so the fruits etc are fresh and really inexpensive. It is home of Rambo , the movie as well as , " shoot ot kill" and several other movies were made here. It also has " ORthello Tunnels' series of 13 tunnels that the engineers of Canada had built across the deep and inaccessible valley for the railway in 1913. It was crazy the way workers hung on ladders to work on this. The railway was built to carry precious copper and other minerals found in the east part. Guess why this inaccessible location was chosen : " they were worried about the aggressive Americans taking their precious cargo, if they built it close ot the border " ( this is a direct quote written there) ,

On the way here , we went through pretty but totally dry hills around the Fraser river valley. It is called Fraser river Valley even though the river going through it is Thompson river:) We asked why the hills are so barren and the reasons given are : 1) Different climate 2) fires 3) Pine Beattle. We think forth reason is logging.

We stopped at Ashcroft. A pretty and small town. Not listed in tour books. It had a museum full of unique things like pddle driven lathe machine, washing machine ( hand crancked) etc.

We passed interesting towns, one of them was Boston Bar. We passed it even without knowing it. But, stopped at the Hell's Gate. It is the narrowest portion of Fraser river acnyon and the river rushes through the deep 500 feet canyon. They have made a pretty tourist trap out of the location and we being the tourist fell into the trap.

The campground id prettiest so far. Tall trees, quite, river and at the same time wi fi and flush toilets. We found this by asking at the visitor center. I think that works much better than the AAA book or anything else.

Time for breakfast, so i have to stop this. HAve a wonderful day.

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