Day 10 – 6/27/09 (Part 1) --- 187 Miles (Invermere, British Columbia to Banff, Alberta)
41 at 6:00 AM --- 74 at 4:30 PM
We left Inveremere at 8:15 AM and modified our route as was suggested by the young man. We rode to Golden, BC along BC Highway 95. The Columbia Valley Wetlands ran next to the road between the Rockies, on our right, and next range to the west. The ride was beautiful. We gassed up in Golden and talked to two other couples on motorcycles. Of course they were impressed with the Valk and that we had ridden from southern Indiana. We then rode on trans-Canada 1 through the Yoho National Park. There was road construction at first. It was wet, bumpy and coated with a liquid like cement water that made the surface very slippery and the Valk very “chalky-looking.” The highway followed the Kicking Horse River, which ran in the valley below. We rode in to Emerald Lake, which was a beautiful green and then to the Natural Bridge.
Columbia River Valley Wetlands
Columbia River Valley Wetlands
Trans Canada 1
Trans Canada 1
Near the Edge of Trans Canada 1
Breaks in Trans Canada 1
Trans Canada 1
Trans Canada 1
Trans Canada 1
Road to Emerald Lake
Emerald Lake
Road Back From Emerald Lake
The Natural Bridge
Navigator at Top of the Falls as it Drops Under the Natural Bridge
