We left
home on Sunday June 12 after returning from the ATV weekend campout. We dropped off the ATV and hooked up the car,
had showers and did a load of laundry before hitting the road. After a quick stop in Oliver to use the sani dump,
we were finally heading out on the long awaited trip. We made it a little ways past Greenwood, BC
then pulled off on to the Phoenix Mine Road where we found a suitable spot to
dry camp. I guess dry camp doesn’t
really apply since it poured rain overnight and the next morning. That was our theme for the next two
days. We had the windshield wipers going
nearly the whole time until we arrived at Jasper. We spent our second night at the Lake Louise
overflow campground as the main campground was full.
We had
heard about the overflow parking campground at Jasper just beyond the Snaring
Campground but it was closed still. We then
spent six nights at the Snaring site even though the sign restricted motorhomes
to 27 feet and we are closer to 36. I
don’t know the reasoning behind the length restriction as we had no problems
driving the roads or finding a large enough site. I suspect they are pandering to the rental
RVs but I don’t think it fair to try and force the larger machines into the
main busy campground near town. We
certainly don’t require hookups and prefer to be in a quieter area.
We day tripped
in the car for the next several days and covered most of the main park and some
of the less used areas. The flowers were
pretty good and we lucked out with wildlife as you will see in future posts. We left Jasper Tuesday June 21, which
happened to be the day our AZ friends from Montana, Dave and Nancy,
arrived. If we had known we could have
extended our stay in order to meet up with them. However, neither of us knew what the other
was doing. I just happened to see a
Facebook post from one of their party mentioning their names.
We broke
our trip to Donnelly into two days and stayed Tuesday night in Whitecourt,
AB. We are currently parked in my Cousin Judith’s
driveway in lovely downtown Donnelly.
Today is a rest day and I have been catching up the laundry with grocery
shopping looming. I will need to clean
the car for visibility too as the rain we ran into got it pretty dirty while being
dragged along behind the motorhome. Many
of the side roads are gravel or mud so a lot of mud gets tracked onto the
highway which is then thrown up by the motorhome tires and oncoming vehicles.
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