Blogs from Kootenay National Park, British Columbia, Canada, North America - page 2

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August long weekend holidays rolled around and we still had no jobs so we packed our sleeping bags and tents in the car and headed with Tina, Scott, Chad and Kelly to Fairmont Springs which is west of Calgary in British Columbia. In the end we were lucky to find a campsite as a lot of people had decided to spend the long weekend camping. I was stoked with the spot we got though. It was surrounded by a horseshoe shaped pond. We pitched tents before lazing around the fire. Eating, drinking and being merry occurred. Not even a downpour and mosquitos dampened the spirits. The campsite was close to a river so the next morning we blew up the inflatable rafts, grabbed a few brews and sat back as we floated through the valley. Nic ... read more
Fairmont Springs - Chad in his favourite outfit
Fairmont Springs - Campfire
Fairmont Springs - Campground


Jayne and Kevin had reserved a condo for a short family vacation at the Panorama Mountain Village Resort which is 12 miles out of Invermere which is at the southern edge of Kootenay National Park. The resort was built as a ski resort and has dozens of ski runs, from the very basic bunny hills to heli-skiing; for the small price of $4500/person you can rent a helicopter for the day to carry you repeatedly to the top of the particular ski runs that the cable cars don’t reach. Kootenay NP is south of Banff National Park and is usually a bit warmer. Located in one of the most beautiful spots in the Rocky Mountains, over the years the resort has added summer attractions to keep the accommodations occupied. The Kootenay Valley also enjoys a terrific ... read more
Condo
Cable car
Granddaughters


A leisurely start to the day was followed by a pub lunch where we watched Germany beat Portugal in the football. Random side point: I forgot to mention about my shower that morning. As I went into a cubicle, the sign said Loonie required. I thought, surely you don’t have to be a bit mentally unstable to have a shower. I quickly found out that a loonie means a dollar, and that a toonie is two dollars. Ok back to the day’s festivities. We grabbed some supplies from a grocery store and made our way to Lake Nakusp. We were stoked when we found the campsite, it was right on the lake and our site was within a stones throw of the water. After some Bocce we were sitting around when what I thought was a ... read more
Glacier National Park
Glacier National Park
Takkakaw Waterfalls


An early wake up call was followed by a long day of driving. We left Waterton and the province of Alberta and headed into British Columbia, destination Lake Christina. Much reading, crosswords and listening to music was undertaken. We stopped at a few attractions, the first was to check out an enormous truck, I think one of the largest in the world. Second was Frank’s slide, around 100 years ago a landslide crushed a small mining town killing 70 people, it got up to speeds of 120 km’s per hour and some boulders travelled up to 3 kilometres away. After finding a campground, Scott and I had a few games of Bocce Ball, it’s similar to petanque but the balls are heavier and you can play on grass or sand. You are allowed to either roll ... read more
Christina Lake - Boccee Ball
Massive Truck
Frank's Slide


Nelson is a small town with the rep of been somethink out of the 80 era with alot of hippies and lots of creative people living there. I came on th end of a huge festive so mabee that is whyI found it not to be so captervating but it was a little cute place, a hight light was I got a guided kyakai tour whick killed my arms but was great I could not hardly move my arms after and had blisters all over my hands but worth it!!!... read more


"Beware the fury of a patient man" --John Dryden August 16, 2005,Tuesday. We drove through Kootnay National Park, in British Columbia and stopped at Radium Hot Springs. It was a delightful treat, going from the Ice field to the hot springs. We included photos from another hot springs we visited earlier in the Canadian Rockies. You can see one is very developed and the other more natural. The natural one, Chena Hot Springs was hotter and the smell of sulfur strong! With all the driving we are doing a hot soak is so--ooo welcoming.... read more
Radium Hot Springs
Radium Hot Springs
Radium Hot Springs




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