Most of Vancouver Island, on a map of the terrain, looks like that piece of aluminum foil that you gave up trying to flatten out.
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Central Vancouver Island, Buttle Lake to the west coast. |
The two highways on the north end follow valley floors and skirt the shores of lakes, and rarely climb more than 200 metres (600 some odd feet)*, but the view from those highways is mostly vertical.
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Hwy 28, on the shore of Upper Campbell Lake, looking southwest. |
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The same spot, looking back towards Campbell River. |
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And looking through the trees at the lake and the mountains on the far side. |
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A bit further down the highway, sun and shadow on the upper part of a cliff face. |
*Logging roads don't follow this rule. They go where the trees are.
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