Heading north

We managed to get one more bike ride in on Tuesday before we left Invermere and also made another late evening trip to Fairmont Hot Springs. The pool wasn’t quite as busy as our previous visit.

By Wednesday, we packed up and headed up north through Rogers Pass in Glacier National Park and on to Canyon Hot Springs Resort. Our day had more clouds and even bits of rain at times. The clouds were low in the mountains.

Approaching Rogers Pass

However, we managed to get set up with only a light drizzle before it started to really rain! We have a grassy site, which backs onto bush. We were also warned there is a black bear in the area so keep everything put away. We’ve now made

Our final time change and are in the Pacific time zone.

Canyon Hot Springs Resort. Site 144

Thursday morning we got up to find a mouse in one of the traps we keep set up in the trailer. It was our first of the trip and we haven’t seen any signs otherwise, so hopefully he got caught before he got into any other food. Guess we’ll set up our ultrasonic devices under the trailer tonight. We also heard from neighbours they had a visit during the night by the bear. It attempted to get into their tonneau cover on the back of their truck where they keep their tubs of food. The bear wasn’t able to get in; it just broke a piece of plastic from the cover. I think we did better with the mouse 😉.

The other trap got cleaned from its peanut butter and sprung without catching the mouse – glad we had set two!

After breakfast, we decided to visit the town of Revelstoke since it was still a bit unsettled with rain. We had a good check in at the info centre and then decided to try a drive up to the summit of Mount Revelstoke.

Nice 24 km long road going to the summit

Along the road up, there were a few pull offs where we stopped. We managed to get to the top without much rain, just a bit of occasional drizzle.

Town of Revelstoke and Columbia River from the Meadows in the Sky Parkway driving up Mount Revelstoke.
View at the summit – Balsam Lake – lots of wildflowers blooming

At the summit, there were a number of trails you could take, but between the threat of rain and the mosquitoes, we opted not to walk any of them. After driving back down, we decided to try one of the restaurants in town for supper. A visit to Emo’s turned out to be an excellent choice for homemade pasta!

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Author: Joyce and Paul's retirement travels

Having retired, we are enjoying travelling with our fifth wheel RV. We are from a small town in Southern Ontario.

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