Ol Mother Nature always has a way of showing after a fire like that, and bringing new life back sometimes sooner than expected. The burn areas will remain, but the grasses, native plants come back fairly well. Maybe they’ll get some trees re-planted in the air to help the comeback.
It will all come back except places like Lee's. The Chilcotin is losing population over the last 30 years, and of course that means infrastructure as well. There used to be possibly 10 gas stations along the 400 mile length of Highway, now there are maybe 4, and with reduced hours. The same with restaurants and stores. Lee's was just an extra loss and with really no demand to rebuild.
It was an incredible time, the conditions were just right and within a matter of hours we went from sunny skies to fires burning along a 250 mile long corridor from lightning strikes from a heat generated thunder storm. The storm hit about noon and by 4 pm the highways were closed and parts of several towns were evacuating. Those towns would be completely evacuated within two days. Within a couple days the smoke was so thick in places street lights were automatically coming on mid day it was so dark, and for most of the summer the smoke was thick enough to restrict visibility to anywhere from 100 feet to a 1/2 mile. The normal smoke health index, a scale of 1 to 10 was often in the 100 plus, and was seldom below 60. In regards to your nature fights back comment, both the fires ignition, and most of the contributing conditions, were all nature caused in this case, and just part of nature's cycles. Similar conditions with a similar fire storm and smoke is documented in the 1860's in BC. The fires cleaned out lots of old, dry, dead stuff on the forest floor and now it is greening up with new vegetation where the fires were! The Chilcotin Highway is a pretty, quiet, highway that crosses through a variety of landscapes throughout it's length. For the slightly more adventurous I highly recommend it.
Canada has had fires throughout history, much like any other place, but I feel Canadian news seldom travels beyond the Canadian border. British Columbia has had some very serious fires throughout the past century, but the most devastating have been in the past 7 years. The general consensus with the public that have lived here for awhile is that the authorities have changed fire management policies, going from throw everything at it and put it out to "managing" it. The manage it policy has often allowed fires to grow beyond control. Of course there are others, perhaps not familiar with policy changes that believe the recent fires are due to climate change. Other then the devastation to human infrastructure fires really are one of nature's way to renew, and within a couple years the new growth is nicer then before, and the blackened trees are surrounded by beautiful greenery that hadn't been there for fifty years. Glad you enjoyed the video, and thanks so much for the comment.
Bom dia, Robert! Aqui no Brasil as rodovias são denominadas de BR (Brasil Rodovia) acrescidas de um número na frente como, por exemplo BR 135. Aqui nao se encontra nenhuma estrada tranquila para trafegar quanto essa percorrida nesse vídeo. Aqui as estradas são superlotadas e com altos índices de acidentes. Faço essa comparação para destacar o prazer de viajar por estradas tranquilas, capaz de nos proporcionar mais beleza, segurança e tranquilidade. Adorei seu vídeo! Abraços de Montes Claros/Mg/Brasil 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Muito obrigado, fico muito feliz em saber que você gostou de mais um dos meus vídeos. Existem várias rodovias muito tranquilas na Colúmbia Britânica, esta é definitivamente uma delas. As cidades maiores têm condições parecidas com as que você descreveu, é melhor ficar fora delas se puder!
I always try to include gas station availability in my vids. The Chilcotin has very limited gas stations, often with limited hours so a good rule is to fill up any chance you get.
It was an incredible time, the conditions were just right and within a matter of hours we went from sunny skies to fires burning along a 250 mile long corridor from lightning strikes from a heat generated thunder storm. The storm hit about noon and by 4 pm the highways were closed and parts of several towns were evacuating. Those towns would be completely evacuated within two days. Within a couple days the smoke was so thick in places street lights were automatically coming on mid day it was so dark, and for most of the summer the smoke was thick enough to restrict visibility to anywhere from 100 feet to a 1/2 mile. The normal smoke health index, a scale of 1 to 10 was often in the 100 plus, and was seldom below 60 It is a great highway to take for a cruise, you would need to be more concerned about wildlife and cows and horses then vehicles!
The fires grew so rapidly in the extreme conditions that within hours of them starting any hope of putting them out was lost. The province had thousands of firefighters working the fires for the duration, but the best they could do was try to direct them and do structural protection in the path of the fires. The short answer is yes they fought them but it was a losing battle. Some fire fronts were 50 miles wide and moving at 10 miles an hour.
Mr. Robert, will you maybe doing a video about the 2013 Wildfire Season in this Classic Motorcycle with clearly written words style of yours.? It's dramatic & effective way to read while watching you Ride these area in Very High Quality.! The Music is subtle & in the background, it doesn't over-power the video like in mine vids. 👍
Thanks for the kind words regarding my vid style, I appreciate that. Regarding the 2013 wildfire season i don't remember it being out of the ordinary, maybe remind me of the area that it most affected. Also 2013 is far enough back now that the more striking evidence of a fire is starting to fade so is less evident in a ride by type of video.
The 2023 fire season didn't affect any areas that I plan to ride through so probably not, if I do ride through an area and it is obvious I will probably point it out.
I understand 🙂 I liked it when the Canadian Guys use to host Motorcycle LiveStream every week. Snow & Cold is coming to Calgary again this Sunday, if you ever wanted to help me encourage someone to start a MotoStream, that would mean a lot for my winter. It could be some older gentleman on Cruisers, that enjoy long distance riding, even if that is not my style.
It has been winter here now for a week, and worse then that it has been very grey and dull so it has hit hard, so I get needing encouragement through the winter. Let me know if you find someone doing that!
Ol Mother Nature always has a way of showing after a fire like that, and bringing new life back sometimes sooner than expected. The burn areas will remain, but the grasses, native plants come back fairly well. Maybe they’ll get some trees re-planted in the air to help the comeback.
It will all come back except places like Lee's. The Chilcotin is losing population over the last 30 years, and of course that means infrastructure as well. There used to be possibly 10 gas stations along the 400 mile length of Highway, now there are maybe 4, and with reduced hours. The same with restaurants and stores. Lee's was just an extra loss and with really no demand to rebuild.
Thanks for showing us this part of the country.
You're welcome. Thanks for watching.
👍 this road is beautiful 👍
Thanks Marco, I was very happy to have an opportunity to ride and share this part of it.
What beautiful landscapes!
It is a very pretty, and quiet part of British Columbia.
That must have been like hell on earth. Good to see the regeneration. Nature always fights back when allowed to. Lovely road to ride.
It was an incredible time, the conditions were just right and within a matter of hours we went from sunny skies to fires burning along a 250 mile long corridor from lightning strikes from a heat generated thunder storm. The storm hit about noon and by 4 pm the highways were closed and parts of several towns were evacuating. Those towns would be completely evacuated within two days. Within a couple days the smoke was so thick in places street lights were automatically coming on mid day it was so dark, and for most of the summer the smoke was thick enough to restrict visibility to anywhere from 100 feet to a 1/2 mile. The normal smoke health index, a scale of 1 to 10 was often in the 100 plus, and was seldom below 60.
In regards to your nature fights back comment, both the fires ignition, and most of the contributing conditions, were all nature caused in this case, and just part of nature's cycles. Similar conditions with a similar fire storm and smoke is documented in the 1860's in BC. The fires cleaned out lots of old, dry, dead stuff on the forest floor and now it is greening up with new vegetation where the fires were!
The Chilcotin Highway is a pretty, quiet, highway that crosses through a variety of landscapes throughout it's length. For the slightly more adventurous I highly recommend it.
@@RobertMerz thank you for the information. We didn't hear much about it in the UK. I will look up the 1860s one.
Looks like a nice ride up north 🇺🇸👍✌️✌️😎
It is Gary. Thanks for watching, and leaving a comment.
I don't think of Canada as having fires, but I guess that is in the past. Still the areas have abundant beauty. Thanks for sharing, Robert.
Canada has had fires throughout history, much like any other place, but I feel Canadian news seldom travels beyond the Canadian border. British Columbia has had some very serious fires throughout the past century, but the most devastating have been in the past 7 years. The general consensus with the public that have lived here for awhile is that the authorities have changed fire management policies, going from throw everything at it and put it out to "managing" it. The manage it policy has often allowed fires to grow beyond control. Of course there are others, perhaps not familiar with policy changes that believe the recent fires are due to climate change. Other then the devastation to human infrastructure fires really are one of nature's way to renew, and within a couple years the new growth is nicer then before, and the blackened trees are surrounded by beautiful greenery that hadn't been there for fifty years.
Glad you enjoyed the video, and thanks so much for the comment.
Bom dia, Robert! Aqui no Brasil as rodovias são denominadas de BR (Brasil Rodovia) acrescidas de um número na frente como, por exemplo BR 135. Aqui nao se encontra nenhuma estrada tranquila para trafegar quanto essa percorrida nesse vídeo. Aqui as estradas são superlotadas e com altos índices de acidentes. Faço essa comparação para destacar o prazer de viajar por estradas tranquilas, capaz de nos proporcionar mais beleza, segurança e tranquilidade. Adorei seu vídeo! Abraços de Montes Claros/Mg/Brasil 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Muito obrigado, fico muito feliz em saber que você gostou de mais um dos meus vídeos. Existem várias rodovias muito tranquilas na Colúmbia Britânica, esta é definitivamente uma delas. As cidades maiores têm condições parecidas com as que você descreveu, é melhor ficar fora delas se puder!
thanks for showing the gas station Robert .
I always try to include gas station availability in my vids. The Chilcotin has very limited gas stations, often with limited hours so a good rule is to fill up any chance you get.
250 miles x 250 miles is a huge burn zone. Holy crap!!!!
That drive looks perfect for a daily cruise after a stressful day.
It was an incredible time, the conditions were just right and within a matter of hours we went from sunny skies to fires burning along a 250 mile long corridor from lightning strikes from a heat generated thunder storm. The storm hit about noon and by 4 pm the highways were closed and parts of several towns were evacuating. Those towns would be completely evacuated within two days. Within a couple days the smoke was so thick in places street lights were automatically coming on mid day it was so dark, and for most of the summer the smoke was thick enough to restrict visibility to anywhere from 100 feet to a 1/2 mile. The normal smoke health index, a scale of 1 to 10 was often in the 100 plus, and was seldom below 60
It is a great highway to take for a cruise, you would need to be more concerned about wildlife and cows and horses then vehicles!
Роберт добрый день как поживаете как твои родные Атец вся семья все хорошо твой мотоцикл тракторы 🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝👍
У меня все хорошо. Спасибо за комментарий, мой друг.
Did they out the fires out, or just let them burn themselves out?
The fires grew so rapidly in the extreme conditions that within hours of them starting any hope of putting them out was lost. The province had thousands of firefighters working the fires for the duration, but the best they could do was try to direct them and do structural protection in the path of the fires. The short answer is yes they fought them but it was a losing battle. Some fire fronts were 50 miles wide and moving at 10 miles an hour.
Mr. Robert, will you maybe doing a video about the 2013 Wildfire Season in this Classic Motorcycle with clearly written words style of yours.?
It's dramatic & effective way to read while watching you Ride these area in Very High Quality.! The Music is subtle & in the background, it doesn't over-power the video like in mine vids. 👍
Thanks for the kind words regarding my vid style, I appreciate that.
Regarding the 2013 wildfire season i don't remember it being out of the ordinary, maybe remind me of the area that it most affected. Also 2013 is far enough back now that the more striking evidence of a fire is starting to fade so is less evident in a ride by type of video.
I meant to type the 2023 Fire Season, the worst recorded in History.
The 2023 fire season didn't affect any areas that I plan to ride through so probably not, if I do ride through an area and it is obvious I will probably point it out.
I understand 🙂 I liked it when the Canadian Guys use to host Motorcycle LiveStream every week. Snow & Cold is coming to Calgary again this Sunday, if you ever wanted to help me encourage someone to start a MotoStream, that would mean a lot for my winter. It could be some older gentleman on Cruisers, that enjoy long distance riding, even if that is not my style.
It has been winter here now for a week, and worse then that it has been very grey and dull so it has hit hard, so I get needing encouragement through the winter. Let me know if you find someone doing that!