July 14 2011 Mount Fernie

just neat clouds

Letting the truck cool down

Thursday July 14 2011
Left  Grand Forks BC at 8:30.  The Salmo pass thru the mountains is pretty steep, especially when truck is acting up.  We saw a pasture with a few horses in it up by the road and one of the horses had 5 birds sitting  on its back, the horse just kept on eating and the birds relaxing as the horse moved around.  Before Creston, on the pass thru the mountains, we were on a steep grade and it started raining, then ice pellets.   Temperature down to 48 F.  Now we are into just rain and temp up to 53 degrees, then it turned to snow!!!!!!!!.  We stopped in Creston at the GM dealer to ask about the truck but they couldn't look at it today, not till next week sometime.  So we went  for lunch.  The truck mileage thru the mountains is 16.6 l / 100 km.  We drove to Mount Fernie to stop for the night, stopped about 5:00.  It is a provincial park, doesn't have any hook ups.  There is no office, you just look at the board and see what spots are available and go pick one and park.  At night a park employee comes around and collects the fee ($21.00 per night) ($6.00 for fire wood).  When we were stopped to see where to go at the front of the park there was something moving in the bushes on the side of the road.  We saw that it was really big and finally figured out it was a moose, didn't get a very good pic but you can tell its the head of the moose.  Had a fire for a while, been a long time, really enjoyed it.  It rained a bit during the night.