August04_2010

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Cherryville is an unincorporated community in the foothills of the Monashee Mountains in British Columbia with a population of approximately 614. It is located 14 miles (22 km) east of Lumby, along Highway 6.

Photos - An interesting barn. Not your average vintage hip-roof barn that everyone is used to seeing at the roadsides around North America, this is three storeys up in the shape of a cube with a corrugate steel roof. The old tractor and other vintage equipment parked outside the barn are also part of the ranch at 690 Highway 6 on the eastern side of Cherryville BC.

Photos - The old ranch house and outback building are on the opposite side of the highway but in the same ranch property as the interesting barn shown in the top row of photos. The ranch hose is mainly built with logs and has cedar shingle siding on the top floor of the two storey structure. The features of this old ranch house are the top floor dormer and full verandah on the western side of the structure.

Photos - Frame left: A last look at the old ranch with the vintage tractor still connected to a 492 Holland Haybine.

Frames right and center: Heading further east along Highway 6 to McIntyree Lake in the Monashee Pass - The pass is comparatively gentle in elevation. At 1205 meters it’s some 300 meters below Highway 3’s Paulson summit, but it’s a winding one (you could draw comparisons with that famous street in San Francisco) and not for passengers with weak stomachs. This soon to be 70-year-old highway actually looks it in places. It’s narrow and crumbling in many parts and the single-lane Deep Creek bridge near the summit can be a bit unnerving.

Click here for more photos of Highway 6 for this day.