August 15/2014 Cloudy with a chance of rain today, high of 80.
Well the weather doesn't matter too much as we are moving West via Trans Canada Highway 1 to Kamloops. Both of us are a bit unnerved wondering how severe the inclines and declines and sharp curves might be. On the map it shows it being a scenic route and we much prefer doing scenic routes on the motorcycle! Shortly out of Golden we enter
Glacier National Park and see in the distance some foreboding mountain tops.
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| Entering Glacier National Park |
There is a very extreme area in winter here for avalanches that took some thinking on the engineering to keep this route open in the winter. Roger's Pass has several tunnels with avalanche sheds over them. Certainly won't see them back in Ontario:)
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| Avalanche sheds and tunnels - Roger's Pass |
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| Mount Revelstoke |
Some inclines and declines but nothing that Billy couldn't manage and then on through Mount Revelstoke Park, and we are happy that it was not so bad either. Phew!
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| train tunnel in the valley beside the river |
Onward we drive through the beautiful valleys in the Salmon Arm watershed area with the most houseboats in Canada. There are many lakes and rivers attached to each other here and it lends itself to endless possibilities for the touring houseboats. The topography changes so much in the 200 miles. In Kamloops the hills are rocky with sagebrush and grass, very arid looking. Yet the Thompson river and its forks run through the valley. We are camping a few days here at
Kamloops RV Park.
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| coming into Kamloops |
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