We haven't seen a bear since Jasper, but that doesn't mean they aren't here. From a recent edition of 'The Bow Valley Crag & Canyon' (the Bow Valley runs from Bannf to Lake Louise): two hikers from Calgary encountered a bear with a dead moose carcass. The bear to protect his food attacked the male hiker. The female hiker retrieved her bear spray from her rucsac and dropped it. As she picked it up the bear bit her hand and the bear spray. The spray went off ...

Off again to a new destination Oh, life is hard when it's all recreation Waterfalls galore we saw at Johnston Canyon Missed the next turn, so Silverton falls walk we did abandon Once again, we were at Lake Louise Can we stop Donna asked, oh pretty please But onward we really must go Over the pass to the park of Yoho A quick stop we made in the village of Field To see what strength their internet would yield The sunshine has gone, above us it's grey B...

We will soon be in Alberta but just one more stop on British Columbia first. We have been carrying a Tumbler Ridge brochure around for months, the hiking there looks fab. Now it was time to find out how fab it really is. We were surprised to find how empty the RV park was and how cheap. There is a lot of evidence of dinosaurs in this area. Our first walk was down to where dinosaur prints had been discovered as recently as 2000. They were there but if you didn't...

At Liard hot springs campground as the smoke enveloped us the sun shone orange through the haze and then we discovered that the smoky road we had taken from Watson lake to get here had been closed earlier in the afternoon. The road was still closed the next morning when we left, and still closed four days later when I typed this - It would seem we got through just in time. There are currently in excess of 500 wildfires in British Columbia with a total of 6000 h...

From our fresh air spot in Big creek campground we continued East. First stop Watson Lake - memories of trying to get our propane problem fixed over a month ago. Back in 1942 a homesick US army engineer working on the construction of the Alaska highway put up a sign with the distance to his hometown. That was the beginning of the Watson Lake sign post forest On July 2oth 1990 the 10,000th sign was posted - goodness knows what the count is now. We stopped and lo...