Mountains

Driving up the TransCanada towards Revelstoke yesterday, we caught our first glimpse of the real mountains in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies - as we looked at these snow covered peaks we were enjoying bright sunshine and 24C and even though it cooled down in the evening, it was still around 16C when we ventured out of the hotel after breakfast. We stopped briefly at the farmers market and picked up some essential supplies - fresh bread, salad, local fruit and veg and some jam before dropping into the Railway Museum (more of this later) on our way to the Visitor Centre at the Revelstoke Dam.

This is a fairly impressive structure - the dam is 175M high, while the lake is in the region of 28,000 acres or more than twice the total acreage in all of BC. The visitor Centre was well laid out and the elevator to the top of the dam provided some great views while powering a large part of BC's power requirements.

Back on the road north and the weather changed. as the clouds started to obscure the mountain tops and the rain started  to fall, the temperature also dropped from 16C down to about 8C as we crossed the Rogers Pass. I suddenly realised that I had fallen foul of the dress code again - tee shirt and shorts were not really the appropriate dress for these conditions.

By the time we arrived in Field - our home for the next few days - it was wet and cool which made us very grateful for the underfloor heating in our garden apartment at the Van Horne Guest house.