27th May 2025

We said more emotional goodbyes and headed off to Snowforest in Revelstoke.  We had already seen Revelstoke, we had passed through it on the Rocky Mountaineer. I had grabbed a few pictures of the railway museum as we passed by.

Took a long time getting going, the traffic into Kelowna was horrendous. It took an hour to get into and through Kelowna. The traffic on the bridge was horrendous, all being slowed down by the red traffic lights in the city. There should be a better way.

On route we stopped off at the Last Spike, we had seen this as we passed through on the train. This was where the last rail was laid in the construction of this railway. The last spike, holding the rail to the sleeper was driven in. We bought ice creams; they had obviously thawed out and refrozen as some stage. Loads of Swallowtail butterflies.

When we arrived in Revelstoke we bought food. I filled the van with petrol, while R was buying me beer.  R asked the guy running the liquor store for cloudy IPA, and preferably brewed locally. So, I ended up with a Revelstoke IPA. It was very nice.

In Snowforest where we were off-grid. The toilets, showers and dish-washing facilities all look good. There was a store of wood, which I helped myself to (the pitch fee included it).

We went for a short walk through the forest, along one of the footpaths. No bears or elks to be seen or heard. But we talked loudly, just in case.

I tried to light a campfire in our pitch’s alloted firepit, failed. The couple next door sorted us out. Actually, they sorted us out several times, first with the can opener, ours was worn out, then, their axe to split the wood, then, their gas torch to light the fire, and then they supplied us with dry kindling. The wood here was a little damp.  The couple came from Calgary.