Kinsol Trestle
Yesterday's and today's topics are linked, but not with a website. This photo is not one of mine but pulled from a site about the Kinsol Trestle on Vancouver Island. I'm sorry for the distortion - it had to be 'shrunk' disportionately.
Trestles and suspension bridges broach the same challenges for someone like me with a fear of heights.
However, trestles do not have the guidewires to hold onto along the sides. The sides of a trestle, like that of a cliff, afford no protection.
I will not be able to crawl along dragging my bike, either, as it would likely slip over the edge.
I am going to have to walk my bike across, or detour.
Some of the trestles have not been finished yet so there is an interim route already in place, as they call it in those places (particularly Vanc. Island)...a detour using roads or highways and often paved, but which can add many miles to the trip.
The Canadian Corps of Engineers with the Armed Forces had promised a few years ago to work on three of the bridges. Since then, gigantic fires in BC took out 2 or 3 more.
I believe there are still 4-5000 miles of the TCTrail yet to be finished although many of those miles/kms. may be on the northern route which I have to put off for another year.
For me, the trip is not the start and the finish but the wonderful experiences in-between so I don't really care when I start nor when I finally finish.
If I have to do it over an extended length of time, I will, and be very happy for each day's journey.
Happy Trails to You All.
Karen
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