This morning we wake up at a crisp 47F in Kamloops, BC, and pack our Harleys early. We leave Kamloops, BC with a murky sky and the smell of burned wood in the air. Fitting to the environment my iPod plays "Smoke on the water" and we are reminded that the wild fires (189 in the province as of this morning for the season) are still ongoing. It would be so much nicer without the haze as we follow crystal clear streams, which look really, really cold, and turquoise lakes which don't look much warmer neither, locked in-between mountains of which we only can see some contours, and whose beauty we only can imagine. We stop at a historic point, the place where the last spike was hammered down to complete the railway stretch between the basins fo the Columbia and Fraser rivers. 1885 the Eagle Pass connected East with the West, celebrated at Craigellachie, BC.
We continue climbing our first pass for the day, 4200 ft, a piece of cake with all the horsepower of our bikes, and stop for lunch in Revelstroke, BC. From here we climb into Mt. Revelstroke NP, and from there another climb to about 5200 ft to the Glacier NP (not to be confused with the one in MT) before continuing to Lake Louise, AB and through the Banff NP to Banff. AB. It is once again a drive to die for, the Tans Canada Hwy-1 being in good condition, even though most of the beauty around us remains hidden from us in the smoke of the forrest fires.
Impressions from Banff, AB
Looks so much different than eight years ago
Elvis is leaving the building, ...
"Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form in another." - John Muir - Scottish-American naturalist, environmentalist, botanist, philosopher, and "father of the National Parks"
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