The dirt of the Okanagan
The soil of the region is great for its vineyards, but it also makes for gravel and singletrack of fine vintage
Photo by:
RJ Saur
After bombing down a wide road with seriously rocky gravel, clutching the drops on my gravel bike, I exhaled deeply as the forest road spit me out onto a rail trail in front of a big canyon sky. Ahead, the trail followed a cliff, then curved around the mountain and headed over a trestle bridge. On the trestle that spans Pooley Creek, I was more than 55 m above the Myra Canyon on B.C.’s Kettle Valley Rail Trail (KVR).
The soil of the region is great for its vineyards, but it also makes for gravel and singletrack of fine vintage . . .
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