The next morning I was up and away
by 5:30am. Easy to get up when there's an unknown empty road
ahead to explore. But not so easy when you have to go to work!
This is at km 443. Notice how hazy it looks. That's from showers
that moved in, and gradually turned into heavy rain. Can't win!
As I was driving along this
morning I passed what looked like a small pile of dark-coloured
rocks. I turned around to have a look and it turned out to be a
pile of bear scat! Right in the middle of the road!
I suppose
that could be an alternate definition of a remote road ... a
bear deposits its scat in the middle of the road, and no one has
run over it yet!
Here's what the typical forest
looks like along here - deep lichens amongst the widely spaced
jack pine and black spruce trees (km 472).
Nice fall colours.
This morning
while I was on the road, in 5 hours I saw only three other
vehicles!
A recent forest fire. Fires up
here are mostly caused by lightning.
km 487
km 499
km 500
The eastern reaches of
this road are nice, as the forest comes up fairly close to the
road. As you can see from this photo, the road is smaller
(narrower) here.
