Sunday, June 12, 2011

Day 14: Golden to Lake Louise (85.35 km)

Today, at long last, we left all 925 km of British Columbia behind us.
However, in true form, the province didn't go down without a fight.
Kicking Horse Pass turned out to be a much more formidable challenge
than Rogers and led us up steep climbs at the start and finish of the
eighty-five kilometer ride, climbing over 1000m to our highest
altitude yet at 1500+ metres.

It's late, but on the advice of my father, Vanessa and I have been
keeping some odd tallies over the last two weeks of travel. In order
to travel from one end of BC to the other we ate 135 granola bars, 3
kg of bulk granola and eight Power Bars. This is either gross or
awesome depending on your perspective. Lately Vanessa and I have
started going as far as to put granola in lunch wraps with peanut
butter. We figure at this rate we'll find a way to include it in our
pasta dinners by the end of the prairies (we joke... we think).
It's bittersweet leaving BC behind. Vanessa and I have certainly had
our fill of mountain climbing, but we will miss the spectacular
scenery, people and wildlife. In the last eighty-five kilometres we
were treated to close encounters with a small group of elk and roughly
10 mountain goats, one perched on a ledge so precarious, it boggles
the mind to think how it got there.

After coasting through Banff tomorrow, we will have a new landscape
developing as we descend into the prairies. We're also looking
forward to seeing friends in Calgary. By the way, for any of those
Calgary friends reading, we should be in town Monday night and all day
Tuesday.

3 comments:

  1. You should have looked into a granola sponsor. At this rate, you'll have eaten more than 1000 bars by St Johns.

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  2. Hi kids! This is Grandpa cheering you on!

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  3. Hi Friends, Can't wait to see you!

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