Heading east out of Kamloops we followed the South Thompson River, the highway staying mainly on the moraine benches above the river. The river is fairly broad and where the current slowed a bit,there were nice looking homes with private docks for quite some distance upstream of town. Eventually the river entered a narrower canyon where it had been dammed to form Shuswap Reservoir. The is a very popular lake, with a long, narrow and twisting shape, and although the road wound around hills to what I thought were different lakes, I eventually realized that it was just one long, oddly-shaped lake.
From Lake Shuswap we headed toward Revelstoke where we crossed the Columbia River. Shortly outside of town we passed under Mt Revelstoke in the first of two National Parks we passed through. The second park, Canada's Glacier National Park, has a set of spectacular peaks that look for all the world like something from the Swiss Alps. Those are the peaks Gi shot behind the bike. One the far side we stopped for a stretch and I couldn't help but snap a shot of these pretty little wildflowers that were growing all over the place.
The original itinerary had us stopping in Banff for a couple of days, but those plans were changed when we ended up staying in Whistler for an extra day. After some web surfing we decided that besides having exorbitant prices, Banff wasn't really our style. Just west of the cluster of four National Parks that make up the Banff-Jasper complex is the town of Golden, which sits at the confluence of the Columbia and Kicking Horse Rivers. We booked a room at the Glenogle Lodge, a private and secluded little retreat that sits up above the city, but has beautiful views of the mountains that could make you believe you're way out in the wilderness somewhere. Our hosts, Doris and Norbert and a lovely German couple who immediately took us in and made us feel like family. The rooms and cabins are spacious, and the overall feeling here is one of escape from the rest of this crazy world. I think it would make an excellent "home base" for future, longer visits to visit the area in more depth.
From here it's about an hour over to Lake Louise and Banff. Plans are to head out relatively early tomorrow so that we can slowly tour the Icefields Parkway on the way to Jasper. Tomorrow's blog should contain some spectacular scenery.
Heading east out of Kamloops we followed the South Thompson River, the highway staying mainly on the moraine benches above the river. The river is fairly broad and where the current slowed a bit,there were nice looking homes with private docks for quite some distance upstream of town. Eventually the river entered a narrower canyon where it had been dammed to form Shuswap Reservoir. The is a very popular lake, with a long, narrow and twisting shape, and although the road wound around hills to what I thought were different lakes, I eventually realized that it was just one long, oddly-shaped lake. 
From Lake Shuswap we headed toward Revelstoke where we crossed the Columbia River. Shortly outside of town we passed under Mt Revelstoke in the first of two National Parks we passed through. The second park, Canada's Glacier National Park, has a set of spectacular peaks that look for all the world like something from the Swiss Alps. Those are the peaks Gi shot behind the bike. One the far side we stopped for a stretch and I couldn't help but snap a shot of these pretty little wildflowers that were growing all over the place.
The original itinerary had us stopping in Banff for a couple of days, but those plans were changed when we ended up staying in Whistler for an extra day. After some web surfing we decided that besides having exorbitant prices, Banff wasn't really our style. Just west of the cluster of four National Parks that make up the Banff-Jasper complex is the town of Golden, which sits at the confluence of the Columbia and Kicking Horse Rivers. We booked a room at the Glenogle Lodge, a private and secluded little retreat that sits up above the city, but has beautiful views of the mountains that could make you believe you're way out in the wilderness somewhere. Our hosts, Doris and Norbert and a lovely German couple who immediately took us in and made us feel like family. The rooms and cabins are spacious, and the overall feeling here is one of escape from the rest of this crazy world. I think it would make an excellent "home base" for future, longer visits to visit the area in more depth.
From here it's about an hour over to Lake Louise and Banff. Plans are to head out relatively early tomorrow so that we can slowly tour the Icefields Parkway on the way to Jasper. Tomorrow's blog should contain some spectacular scenery.
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