Day 14

Wednesday, July 7th
Golden to Field
110km

Another day of steep climbs.  There was some really nice scenery along the way though - the foggy white clouds covered the rocky grey mountain tops.

I rode with Paul and Rick again, but we didn't push ourselves too hard up the hills.

Since the route was only 65km or so, we went for a couple of side trips today.  Just outside of Field, we turned off the Transcanada highway and visited “Emerald Lake” and the “Natural Bridge”.  Emerald lake is a deep green lake that gets its colour from tiny setiments of rock that get swept-up as the water flows off of the glaciers.  The Natural Bridge is a fast-flowing river that passes under a rock “bridge”.  Both warrented many photos.

After that, we rode past our campsite and up some steep climbs to tttttt falls - the tallest waterfall in Canada.  It was also quite impressive - and this is from someone who grew up minutes from Niagara Falls.  The ttttt falls were much less touristy than Niagara.  (I suppose that almost everywhere is.). The road to them had several streep climbs, and I rode switchbacks on it for the first time.  (Switchbacks are a series of sharply pitched, hair-pin turns.)

After that, we headed back to the campsite.  Just as we arrived, it started to rain.  The day was very cool, but now it was very cold and very wet.  With bad weather, we ate supper, sat in tents talking for a bit, and went to bed.

Note: My Blueberry doesn't always seem to have coverage out here in the mountains, so don't worry if I havn't posted an update in a few days.
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Daniel Longo
CIBC Corporate Development
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