Day 3 COLUMBIA RIVER TRIP - RADIUM HOT SPRINGS TO REVELSTOKE

Day 3 takes us on the road from Radium Hot Springs to Revelstoke  following the Columbia River through the Columbia Valley which is just southwest of the Canadian Rockies.  So most of the time to our right was Banff, the Great Columbia Ice Field, Yoho Park, Mt. Edith Clavelle, and eventually Jasper.  We have fond memories of all those places but today we are riding just due southwest of them enjoying this beautiful valley which their water feeds.  

ON THE WAY TO REVELSTOKE VIA JOHNSON PASS

Revelstoke is a fairly modest mountain town at the crossroads between north south and east west on Canada's Highway one,  they've decided that bears are their mascot.  Seems like all these town's have some mascot by which they try to distinguish themselves.

BETH UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH A BEAR IN THE RAILROAD MUSEUM

BEARS GUARDING THE ENTRANCE TO REVELSTOKE

We got here in plenty of time so we went to visit the Railroad Museum and to a ride up to the top of Mt. Revelstoke (about 5,800 feet)  where we went for a small walk which nearly killed the old folks (us).  Only one lousy kilometer uphill, oh time to get back into our former not so good shape.  I spent some time talking to a guy in the museum who was working on a "HO" model train set.  He's been working on it for ten years and its still got a long way to go......labor of love for sure.  We had a good time talking and it brought back my childhood memories of building model railways with my dad and brother.  Our set was so big it took up our whole bedroom and we moved into the attic with our beds to have enough room.  Good times for sure!

BETH AT THE REVELSTOKE RAILROAD MUSEUM

So I found this grind stone at the museum, who cares right!  Well it just so happens I have one of these in my garage and my plan for a long time has been to build the old enclosure and tub for it, now I have a pattern, plus Beth doesn't think I'm quite as nutty as she thought.  The thing I was talking about that my grandfather had actually exists in museum.  Soon to exist at Fyles hours.  Ok enough for today!

GRIND  STONE   IN REVELSTOKE RAILROAD MUSEUM