Day
58 – 7-8-15 Wednesday The scenery after leaving the campground was
mostly thick forest of spruce trees with views of mountains in the
distance. The road was good with lots of up and down hills and around
curves with a few bodies of water visible from the road. One short
construction delay at one of the many bridges. When we got to Mcbride
we began to see very large hay fields again. This community sets down
in a large wide valley between the mountains and has several large
well kept ranches/farms along the highway. We saw one that had
several cows and most places had horses. There was one area coming
into Mcbride that had a high crosswind warning sign and it was
obvious why the sign was there, as the crosswinds were strong.
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| Bridge Maintenane |
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| One of many rivers - excuse the buggy windshield |
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| Mount Robson |
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| Park Entrance |
After
about 120 miles of driving today, we pulled into the campground at
Mount Robson Provincial Park. We could see smoke from a small forest
fire high up on the side of the mountain behind the visitor's center.
We selected site 38 in the Meadows Campground and setup. The
campground has 125 sites – no hookups, but for those that need it
there are showers here unlike all the other provincial parks we have
stayed at. That probably explains why the fees are $28 (Canadian) per
night, which is rather pricey for no hookups but it is a nice
campground, paved streets, large sites, showers, flush toilets and
water spigots scattered around for drinking water and a dump station
near the visitor's center and free WiFi at the visitor's center. The
streets in the campground are laid out in a spiral – kind of
unusual.
Later
in the day we drove 7 miles back up the Yellowhead Highway to see the
Rearguard Falls on the Robson River. There is a small parking lot at
the trail leading down to the falls but not enough room for us to
stop with the motor home. We walked down the trail to the falls.
There are nice walkways built over the rocks near the falls so you
can safety get close to the falls. The falls are not very high,
probably not more than 10 feet but the volume of water that flows
over the rocks is impressive and the river takes a 90 degree turn
just past the falls so there is a lot of water activity. The water is
a beautiful aqua blue. The sound from the water flowing over the
rocks was almost like the sounds from constant thunder. The falls are
the upper limit of the migration of the 800 mile migration of the
Chinook Salmon from the Pacific Ocean.
On
the way back we stopped at the other campground at Mount Robson Park,
The Robson River Campground. It has 19 sites but the sites are not as
large as the sites in The Meadows Campground where we are, so The
Meadows is a better campground for larger RVs. A few sites are near
the river bank though.
We
stopped at the visitor's center to get some information and try the
WiFi. The WiFi is limited so I will not try to post this while we are
here. We were able to check email. While we were checking our email,
sitting out on the observation deck in the back, we could see Mount
Robson, the tallest peak in the Canadian Rockies at 3954 meters
(12,972 feet) and could see the smoke from the forest fire. There
were 3 helicopters working the fire. Two were using water buckets
hung below the helicopter carrying 250 gallons of water each trip.
The other helicopter dropped some fire retardant on the fire. There
was a lake near the visitor center so they didn't have to go far to
get water.
A
little cooler today – upper 70's but out in the sun it is hot. Out
campsite is really shady so we are just fine.
I
got the bicycles out of the Jeep for the first time on this trip. The
streets here are paved and level so it would be a good place to ride
without worrying about traffic. The tires needed a little air so I
pumped them all up and put too much in my front tire and blew a hole
in the tube. Dumb me! I tried three different attempts to patch the
3/8” hole but it was in the only place on the tube that was not
smooth and the patches would not hold. The nearest town to get a new
tube is Jasper, BC about 45 miles away so we will wait until we get
there in a couple of days to get a new tube.
No
campfires here either due to the dry weather so I used the grill to
cook a nice piece of hamsteak for supper.
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