Monday July 8, 2015

Jack made us oatmeal and Melissa made the raspberry smoothie for breakfast. We were on the road by 7:30. I didn’t have the legs today, although the route was not hard, we had a very changeable wind. One minute it was a headwind, the next a tailwind and then a sidewind, I wished it would make up its mind. Ralf took the lead after my first 20 minutes at the front and stayed there for the rest of the ride.

We stopped at Yahk (41.kms) there was a campsite and I was tempted to call it quits, but it was only 10:45 and I knew Ralf wanted to keep going.

The scenery today was not very inspiring, the most exciting part of the day was when we got the train driver to toot his whistle as he passed us! It was a steady climb, but nothing much over 4% and although I thought there wasn’t going to be any down-hills, we did have enough to give us a rest from the up hills.

We lost an hour we had a time change to mountain time.

We carried on to Moyie where there was supposed to be a motel. There wasn’t any sign of a motel, just a pub and a grocery store. The pub may have been the motel at one time, it was a little rundown and needed some tlc.

We stopped for lunch at the pub, the food was good and a big portion. It seemed to revive me and we carried on to the Jim Smith Lake Provincial Park. At the turnoff to the campground, I, for some unknown reason suggested to Ralf that we carry on to Cranbrook, another 20 kms away. He was doubtful and suggested we stop. My argument was it was 4 kms to the campsite and then it would only be 20 kms to Cranbrook the next day. If we carried on we could have a good nights sleep and a full rest day in Cranbrook.

We carried on. We got to the outskirts of Cranbrook and went into the Visitors Centre. The lady there told me there was an HI at the College. Basically they rent out the student accommodation in the summer. Perfect we arrived at the college and registered at the hostel – two nights for $61.00, great price.

Ralf went to get some beer and I made supper. We were both tired, but a good tired.