A hundred kilometres of forest to the plateau

Before the trip I wondered how an ATV ride would differ from a jet-ski one. The answer came quickly: “a hundred kilometres of forest ahead, and we’ll be at the plateau.”

Along the way: a mountain-river ford, old gold diggings with a dredge and spoil heaps (I captioned that story simply “Gold mining”) and a waterfall in a canyon. Up top, at the end of June, there is still snow; boulder fields give way to mountain tundra, and a rock outcrop waits for the whole group to climb it.