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Thursday, July 7th – Revelstoke to Golden, British Columbia - Day 146 

 Our morning was spent in Revelstoke doing laundry, going to the bank, and running errands. We met a father from Idaho who was spending time with his wheelchair bound son Grayson road tripping across British Columbia. They had already gone up to Yellowknife in his camper van. Finally, the laundry was done and we were ready to go! Jo-Ce then wanted to drive back to a bridge we had seen earlier to take a “quick” pic. I agreed but then Gen wanted to visit a thrift store very “quickly”. No one was quick and we were delayed another hour. I was upset because we could have done all of this while we were doing the laundry. Luckily it was only 30 minutes to the entrance of Glacier National Park. 


On our way to the visitor centre, we stopped at the Rockgarden Trail. An awesome 430 m loop hike that had a first half climbing up and over rocks and a second half walking through a lush, green forest. Jo-Ce was slowed down by several trees across the path, but she persevered. 


 We needed to get our Explorer books so off we went to the Rogers Pass Discovery Centre. I was concerned initially about driving through another mountain range, but Rogers Pass was a relatively small 1,330 m above sea level. The drive through the Rocky Mountains in Colorado had us travel through the Eisenhower tunnel at an elevation of 3,401 m. We reached the visitor centre with 15 minutes to spare to play with some plastic scat and look at animal tracks. All around the visitor centre were stunning glacier topped peaks. 


After visiting a nearby monument to the completion of a country wide highway, we went to Illecillewaet Valley for a hike on the Meeting of the Waters trail, a 3.3km loop. We had been sufficiently warned about bears that we bought a bear bell for this hike. We would have purchased bear spray but none was on offer. The hike was a loop to see the meeting of the Asulkan brook and the Illecillewaet river. The water levels were high so small streams separated from the river and the kids could play near them without a worry of being swept away. 


To be continued...



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