Best Western Wayside Inn Revelstoke

Help, I'm suffering from majestic mountain view overload! Coming through the rocky mountains yesterday, the weather was perfect. Sunny, blue skies, a few fluffy white clouds here and there. We did a short trip to Harrison Hot Springs, north east of Chilliwack, to start off the day, and had a great breakfast sandwich only steps away from the indoor hot springs and the beach that I remembered from childhood days. The ...

Today drove through lots more mountains, stopped to see the Spiral Tunnels in the mountain, then as luck would have it, a train came through, so that was very interesting to see. Went to the Northern Lights Wolf Refuge and saw wolves which we hadn't seen in the wild. They also did a very good educational talk and display about the importance of wolves in the cycle of things and we also ...

... By the time that we returned to our car, we were hungry for lunch. We returned down part of the mountain to the Monashee Mountains Overlook that we had seen on the way up. Talk about a table with a view, do not miss the picture of Jim enjoying lunch.

On the way back to our campground, we stopped to walk the Skunk Cabbage Boardwalk. This 1.2 meter interpretive loop goes through Columbia ...

So it's warm, very warm and I can see loads of snow on top of the mountains. Crazy.

These are the Columbia Mountains, between the Cascade Mountains to the West and the Rocky Mountains to the east, so called because the mighty Columbia river flows through them right down south and through the USA.

I spent last night in Shushwap lake, an absolute monster spanning at least 100km I recon ...

... next stop was in the Glacier National Park. We stopped at the Roger's Pass Discovery Centre and headed up the Balu Pass. Balu means bear in the native language and they were doing a lot of work on the trail to try and avoid surprise encounters, clearing and rerouting. It was an awesome half-day walk, leading up through forest and then along a meadow area beside a stream. I saw a funny shape sitting on a rock, and the binoculars ...

... the river, we stopped again at Three Valley Gap, and discovered some beautiful yellow triangular butterflies near the lake while we were having our picnic lunch. We arrived at Revelstoke in mid-afternoon and after finding some accommodation, we took a drive up Mount Revelstoke. Due to the late spring we couldn't go up to the summit as there was still too much snow, but we had an interesting talk with a park ranger about the area, got some great views of Revelstoke ...

... landscape. Although we are being treated royally, the ambiguous emotions associated with being back in North America continue to wreck havoc with that euphoric sense that should have enveloped us on coming close to completing a major journey. Everything seems far too easy: smoothly paved road surfaces have replaced the potholed and dusty tracks to which we had become accustomed; numerous clean and well organized campsites leave nothing to the imagination; border crossings ...

... just to sit there and enjoy it rather than taking photos all of the time! Got to Banff, a biggish town which is quite commercialised and touristy but i thought it was quite a nice little place. The 6 of us (Rhian, Sarah, Fenn, Dan, Luke and I) made the BEST pasta (even though the chicken looked so gross cos to buy good chicken it costs an arm and a leg here and cheese!) We went out in Banff (since I actaully could cos in Alberta you have to be 18 but in British ...

... for coaching, he's so ready to take action - how exciting! And I can't wait to stand beside him and watch his dream life unfold before his eyes. With my coaching, funnily enough I have realized that I really want to work with new coaches. There is so much to say about my plans with this, so much that it's too much to write. But let's just say this... I feel compelled to do this, I feel completely at peace about my plans (always a good sign ...

... lake. It has been really hard to explain this part of the trip because around every corner there is another amazing view. Sorry we keep using 'amazing' but it is. As you drive you see the same mountains from different angles and in different light it totally changes your perception. We are now mountained out..and we feel ...