Hi folks. Angela and I just finished a couple week great circle trip from the okanagan valley, up to YOHO, back tracking a bit to Golden and then on to Kootenay national park and then coming home thru the Monashee summit and on thru the Slocan highway back to the Okanagan. With all the side trips it was just under 1900 kilometers, so not a ton of driving this time.
So yes, this is a good route, but you have to be okay with taking a couple ferries as there are a couple lake crossings involved.
We started off with an overnight stay in Golden to touch base with a cousin and then on to Yoho national park for the main event. There are a few campgrounds in Yoho...all unserviced so you need to be self sufficient. They have potable water in many locations and a common sani-dump. Good shower facilities from what we are told although we didn't use them as we are self contained in the trailer. Here are a few pics of the campground and a few of the hikes we did in the area. We were there for 5 days but actually should have stayed 7 as we had to skip a few hikes. Oh well, now we have a reason to go back. We chose an open field site so we could see the mountains but the majority of the sites are in thick forest.
My intention was to include a commentary for each pic but I have a list of things to do today so it will be without commentary on some of them.
Enjoy the pics.
Emerald lake hike. Maybe 5 kilometres.
Picking thimble berries.
Wapta falls. Maybe 6 kilometres ish.
Centennial trail. 2 or 3 kilometres. Right in the campground.
Radar the 13 year old wonder dog. We are in our 60’s. He is like 91 in dog years. Hope we can still hike as good as he does at 91.
Sucking up some electrons at the BC hydro station in Radium.
We are waaaay off to the right.
Okay. That’s enough for now. I’ll post another 10 pics in a few days of other parts of the trip.
So yes, this is a good route, but you have to be okay with taking a couple ferries as there are a couple lake crossings involved.
We started off with an overnight stay in Golden to touch base with a cousin and then on to Yoho national park for the main event. There are a few campgrounds in Yoho...all unserviced so you need to be self sufficient. They have potable water in many locations and a common sani-dump. Good shower facilities from what we are told although we didn't use them as we are self contained in the trailer. Here are a few pics of the campground and a few of the hikes we did in the area. We were there for 5 days but actually should have stayed 7 as we had to skip a few hikes. Oh well, now we have a reason to go back. We chose an open field site so we could see the mountains but the majority of the sites are in thick forest.
My intention was to include a commentary for each pic but I have a list of things to do today so it will be without commentary on some of them.
Enjoy the pics.
Emerald lake hike. Maybe 5 kilometres.
Picking thimble berries.
Wapta falls. Maybe 6 kilometres ish.
Centennial trail. 2 or 3 kilometres. Right in the campground.
Radar the 13 year old wonder dog. We are in our 60’s. He is like 91 in dog years. Hope we can still hike as good as he does at 91.
Sucking up some electrons at the BC hydro station in Radium.
We are waaaay off to the right.
Okay. That’s enough for now. I’ll post another 10 pics in a few days of other parts of the trip.
