Revelstoke and Glacier National Parks

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I was ready to camp on Saturday night, but Saturday morning the long-promised downpour came. I sat in my car in a restaurant parking lot in Kamloops, contemplating my stranger-ness in a strange land. When you travel, you don't have a home to go to when the rain comes down.

We skipped the dismal camping and headed east. Spent the night in Revelstoke. The morning broke in a promising light. So we drove up the Meadow to Sky roadway into Revelstoke National Park. The road takes you almost to the summit of the mountain, then you can hike a kilometer to the top where there are viewpoints, loop trails, nature trails, many flowers. It was lovely. Though the park is small, there are two other trails we hiked, one through a grove of cedars and one along a marsh, called the Skunk Cabbage Trail.

Then we went on to Glacier National Park, not too far east. Wild, grand vistas--scenery in the sublime style. The hikes there all ascend higher and higher toward Heaven's gate. So we merely gawked.

Now we're in Golden, ready to head into Yoho National Park tomorrow for a couple of nights of camping. I'll be out of touch for a while.

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Photos

The Columbia River
Here the Columbia flows south in Revelstoke. (In Golden, where I am today, it flows north.)

Clouds, Distant Mts.
Revelstoke NP

Clearcuts
On the hillside you can see a pattern of logging clearcuts. Almost a plaid.

Devil's Club
Along the Cedar trail in Revelstoke NP.

FOR JACKIE
the color of swamp?

Glacier NP
glaciers and semi

Comments

[wendy]

Hi
Cindy, What beautiful pictures!

[fran]

I'm glad you got out of the rain. Beautiful photos. I envy you. Not much going on here, but John and I saw Julie and Julia yesterday and loved it. An absolute delight and Meryl Streep is a wonder. Walking across the court to the Claremont Laemmle, we stopped to talk to women profs at Scripps, eating lunch. One had seen the movie twice and the other had gone to the first showing of the first day when it was so crowded she had to sit in the 3rd row. At Curves that's almost all the ladies talk about. (And how can they chatter on like that? I haven't enough breath or concentration to exercise AND talk at the same time.) The last few days it hasn't hit 90 and down in the low 60s at night. Lovely for this time of year. Keep on having fun.

[dee]

Kamloops
Hi Cindy--I spent a night in a motel in Kamloops about 30 years ago. There was a full moon and we were on the 2nd story of the motel sitting on a balcony facing south. It was beautiful. That area is beautiful--Frazier River isn't it?? Seems to me that was the river that ran along the highway. There were lots of bears in Jasper and we went to the lake to the east of Jasper (I think) and took a boat ride on it. Thanks for your pictures and comments. It's been fun! Dee