The plan was to awake at 6 to get a jump on the day, but I couldn't bring myself to actually set an alarm. As it was, I woke a few minutes after, so I was ready to get up when Sharon woke, and we hit the road.
We ate breakfast at a closed trailhead overlooking a river. The trail started by crossing the river by a waterfall, but the bridge is gone, we were happy with just the river.
Our next stop was overlooking Columbia Lake, the source of the Columbia River that separates Oregon and Washington. The road followed the Kootenay River, not the Columbia.
We stopped at the Visitor Center in Cranbrook BC for their free WiFi so Sharon could login for work. I also used their wifi to put a hold on the third Armand Gamache in mp3 format from the Jacksonville Library, and download the fourth. Louise Penny is the author of the murder mystery series, and her characters are so fully written that after listening to the first two, we can't imagine skipping an episode in so many lives. We visited Forks WA in passing on the Olympic Peninsula, locale for the Twilight books/movies; if Three Pines Quebec existed it would be fun to drive through.
The Cranbrook Visitor Center got us interested in the bike trails in the area. After a bit, we started on a Rails to Trail, but found a mountain bike trail off to one side. How could we resist? We rode up for 2+ miles, switchbacking up the side of unending forest to another trailhead, before we coasted all the way back down.
But Cranbrook was too big, so we continued on our route to Glacier National, and Sharon found Kikomun Creek Provincial Park on AllStays because it had showers. So we spent one more night in Canada.
The park is big, but expensive (but it has showers!) and our site is big enough to be somewhat private, and an easy walk to the Free Hot Showers! It turns out that the park is big on their woodland turtles, and turtle logos are all over. And there are a bunch of lakes around the park. If we stayed more than a night the SUPs would be out.
But the goal is to get a site in Glacier through the weekend. Sharon aims high.
Pictures are at https://photos.app.goo.gl/n1t6XcWs9Hju7ze96
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