Hello Everyone,
Last night we checked around for camping along our route and couldn't find much. Most campgrounds weren't open yet. We did some searching and we eventually found a hostel in the town of Field online we gave them a call and they were open for business. It wasn't too far away so we took our time this morning getting ready. We cleaned out the free breakfast at the motel and had a bunch of coffees.
On our way out of town we stopped at the grocery store to get some food. The road out of town was quite the climb. Part way up the climb was a nice view of the town...seen below.
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| Overlooking most of Golden. |
Unfortunately it was overcast so we couldn't see too much of the mountains around us. A bit further down the road we spotted a whole bunch of female bighorn sheep on the hill beside the road. We stopped to take a few pictures.
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| Sheep on the hill. |
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| Close up of one of them |
As we were taking pictures and videos one of the bigger sheep started running down the cliff and was heading straight for us. We started biking like crazy since we weren't too sure if they would ram us. Turns out the sheep was trying to get across the road with all of his buddies and could have cared less about us. After we were clear we turned around and took the below picture. The whole herd crossed the road and a few cars had to stop.
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| After a successful road crossing. |
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| Big horn sheep! |
We saw a big horn sheep a little while later after a big climb.
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| Just relaxing. |
We got drizzled and rained on a few times today but nothing too bad. But if you looked up at the tops of the mountains you could see that it was actually snowing up there. The snowline on the mountains looked really cool.
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| Snow on the peaks. |
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| Made it to Yoho National Park |
It was a really beautiful ride through Yoho National Park, the road winded around a couple large mountains and crossed several mountain streams. Since it was a national park there were no buildings or development in the park - just the road and the scenery.
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| Mountains. |
We eventually made it to Field, BC and the first thing we saw were elk grazing on the baseball diamond. There was also a really beautiful stream running through town.
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| Made it. |
Field was a tiny little town so we just biked around all of the streets until we found our hostel. We got all settled in and started cooking dinner! The hostel had a full kitchen available to use.
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| Mmmmm |
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| The view from the balcony |
Later in the night we did laundry, drank a bunch of tea, and played some board games by the fire. It was a pretty relaxing night and we, of course, went to bed early again because we were so tired.
-Chris & Patricia
