From Rossland we headed north to New Denver, found an RV park right on Slocan lake. Canadians seem to love fires, not forest fires but camp fires. All the sites seem to have fire pits of some description, you can't have a fire elsewhere and you cannot collect wood but most sites do sell it. This site was an exception, there was wood scattered along the site shore and there was no objections to burning it - so we did. The weather had been great but we had spent time in the morning stocking up on food and hunting for other items, so what with shopping and driving there was only time left to have a beer and a fire by the lake. Next day we had some British weather in British Columbia - lots of rain. We visited the ghost town of Sandon, once a bustling silver mine town with shed loads of hotels, bars and a brothel. Now unfortunately there are more ghosts than town. Amazing to think that 5000 people lived here and there was 10,000 when all the miners came to town to spend their silver. The rain and the dirt road didn't do much for keeping our camper looking clean! A brief visit to Kaslo where we enquired about bear spray used for very close encounters and bear bangers used to frighten bears away that are more distant but still too close for comfort or bears blocking the trail you are following. It's an expensive game being prepared for bears we decided to wait and price them elsewhere. We do already have a bear bell which jangles as you walk to keep bears away, the joke is however they are really the bears dinner bell! The lady asked us if we knew the difference between brown and grizzly bear scat (poo)! Brown bear scat is full of berries, grizzly bear scat is full pf bear bells! Back at Slocan lake we made use of the warden's canoe and went for a free paddle in the rain - very choppy too. No fire tonight, even though Donna had already been on wood collection duty. Next day the weather was even worse, absolutely p#ssing down. We gave the planned walk a miss and headed straight to Nakusp. It was Sunday nothing seemed to be open but we did manage to park outside the supermarket and connect to their Wi-Fi to update our financial situation and check on emails. Donna wants to buy monopoly as we will have so many evenings to pass in our camper - no TV and either no internet or too slow to stream. Donna was delighted when our next site had free games available, including Monopoly - she bankrupt me! The sky dried up and we strolled along the lake to Nakusp centre - another sleepy place. If we go for a walk our preferred destination is always a summit - to get the view of course. Summits here aren't easy to reach. At New Denver I was hoping we would climb Idaho Peak, but it's a massive walk from New Denver, too far for a day. You can walk up it in just 45 minutes but you need a 4WD vehicle to reach the high parking lot. So many trails start from car parks that are miles up rough roads that we can't access with our Tilly. At Nakusp we found a walk to some hot springs that started up a supposedly okay gravel road - 4WD's not required. We started up this track and made very slow progress, we were dreading meeting an oncoming vehicle as there seemed to be no passing places and a dirty great slope on our left. We reached the fork where we had to go right, the track got rougher and steeper but the real problem was the tree that had fallen across the track. We managed to turn around and got back to tarmac as quick as we could which was a painfully slow bounce and wobble back the way we came. We found an alternative walk to Vicky's view then drove up to the hot springs - it was kind of small and crowded, so we decided it wasn't worth 10 bucks each. With it still only being early afternoon, we agreed to move on again and changed direction to head west.