07-30-2022, 08:43 AM
Golden BC:
Golden is a nice town with a number of restaurants, and two nice bakeries. First night I tried a nearby pub. Got a chicken sammich and pbr. The bill was 30C. No french fries with it or anything. This seemed too high to me. Breakfast the next morning at the bakery was coffee and a ham & cheese croissant for about 10C. Tourist town I guess. But the town has a river running through it. The Kicking Horse river is right next to the motel with a cool bridge:
The water is really moving under there! My guess was over 15 mph. No way you could control yourself in that current if you fell in.
The next morning it's time to see water falls. Wapta falls is about a 40 minute drive away and I'm the first one in the parking lot. As I'm packing up the bike an English couple arrive so we set out on the 2.5 km trail together.
Here is what you get at the end of the trail:
But there is the option to go down to the base of the falls for the rest of the view. I go down but the English couple head back to the car. It's a bit steep, but only about a 10 minute affair, and this yields a great view:
Golden is a nice town with a number of restaurants, and two nice bakeries. First night I tried a nearby pub. Got a chicken sammich and pbr. The bill was 30C. No french fries with it or anything. This seemed too high to me. Breakfast the next morning at the bakery was coffee and a ham & cheese croissant for about 10C. Tourist town I guess. But the town has a river running through it. The Kicking Horse river is right next to the motel with a cool bridge:
The water is really moving under there! My guess was over 15 mph. No way you could control yourself in that current if you fell in.
The next morning it's time to see water falls. Wapta falls is about a 40 minute drive away and I'm the first one in the parking lot. As I'm packing up the bike an English couple arrive so we set out on the 2.5 km trail together.
Here is what you get at the end of the trail:
But there is the option to go down to the base of the falls for the rest of the view. I go down but the English couple head back to the car. It's a bit steep, but only about a 10 minute affair, and this yields a great view: