Weather FAQ
Hals Logo Printer image
B.C. Flag     Tour de Farce 2002     Canadian Flag

Note 3

I started at the Royal Lodge motel in Hope on OLD highway 3 (42 meters or 138 feet) and cycled to Alison pass (Distance: 57.73 km Time: 3:06:01 Average: 18.1) at 1342 meters of 4403 feet.  This resulted in an elevation gain of 4267 feet.  I then cycled down to Mcdermid Meadows 1025 meters or 3363 feet and up to Sunday Summit (Distance: 100.14 km Time: 4:43:22 Average: 21.53 km) to 1283 meters or 4210 feet or an elevation gain of 847 feet.  The total on paper elevation gain was 5114 feet.  There were about three more hills with a difference of at least 500 feet giving a total guesstimated elevation gain of 5614 feet.  This was still the toughest stage of my tour, as indicated by the average KM/hour.  I stopped at the Princeton RV Campground about 2 KM east of Princeton (a left turn off Highway 3).   I used my cousin's accumulating altimeter value for the total elevation gain instead of my guesstimate.

This web page was designed to use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and looks best in a CSS aware browser, which, unfortunately, yours is not.  However, the web page text should still be readable.

This web page is compliant with the W3C 'Strict' XHTML 1.0 DTD(Document Type Definition)! The Cascading Style Sheets used by this web page have been validated!