Leaving Revelstoke

On Thursday we leave Revelstoke, British Columbia and travel to Banff, Alberta.  As best I can tell there is no internet at the national park campground we are staying at, so any internet will have to be from something we find in town.  With that in mind, this may be my last posting for a couple of weeks until we leave Banff. 

This week we did some more sightseeing of the area.  We drove to the dam which is a few miles away.  Then on Monday we went to the Mount Revelstoke National Park hoping to do bicycle riding, hiking and enjoy the Meadows in the Sky drive, but the drive was only open part way, which also meant no access to the bicycle trails.  We did however get some great views of the area.  Here are some of the pictures.

This is a view of the town of Revelstoke from the park with the mountains as a backdrop.

Here is a good view of the mountain peaks that tower over the town.

We stopped to take a hike but this trail was for very experienced, and in good shape, hikers as it climbed over 900 vertical meters.  Needless to say we went for a short way then realized it was too much for us.

After the short time at the national park we drove into town and found a bike trail that goes around town.

Today we found another bike trail on the other side of the river from town.

As you can see from these and previous pictures it is a spectacular place to visit, however it does not appear tourist season is here yet for this area.  We noticed that school is still in session in town and the only campers at this park have mainly been those using it as a one night stop over while driving on the Trans Canada Highway.  What has been interesting is that about 75% of the rigs that stop each night are various size van motorhomes all made by Adventurer.  I was curious so I did some research and discovered that there is an RV company, FraserwayRV, that has lots in major cities across Canada and they rent these motorhomes as well as trucks with campers so people pick them up in one city and drive across Canada and drop them off in another city, or back to the same city.  It seems really popular up here.  So, if any of my followers are interested in this for a future trip, check them out http://www.fraserway.com/content04.asp?nav=107417&.  I can tell you all the rigs I saw were in excellent shape.