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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.

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.

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 😉.

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.

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.

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!

Monday was the end of the Civic Holiday weekend and the campground was busy with people leaving to go home. We decided to take a day trip towards Banff. Highway 93 goes east from Radium through Kootenay National Park for about 140 km to join with the Trans Canada highway #1 south to Banff. We noted a number of scenic stops along the way and the sun was out so off we went!

We followed the Kootenay and Vermilion Rivers for much of the trip (until we got to the Continental Divide). The colour is amazing – nice turquoise like many of the glacial rivers and lakes.

We stopped along the road at several scenic places. A short half hike from the parking lot brought us to Numa Falls.

Next stop was Marble Canyon. We took time here to eat the lunch I packed before heading out on the hike to see the canyon. Once again the colour of the water was amazing. The trail was .7 km one way with some elevation gain. There were a number of bridges crisscrossing the river.

It was a beautiful hike and our timing was perfect. Just as we got within sight of the parking lot, it started to rain. We drove the last 18 km to Castle Junction in Banff National Park where we could get cell signal and check weather. Since it showed showers in the area for the next few hours, we turned around and headed back to our campsite. As we approached Radium, we had our first viewing of a big horn sheep. Unfortunately we weren’t able to get a picture of it.