If it's something you can arrange at some point in your life the trip from East to West (by car/truck/van etc...) is well worth it. If you can find a way... do it.
After a jaw dropping trip through Canmore and Banff we made it to Golden BC where we camped for the night. Honestly the sheer mass and size of the mountains would blow your head right off. Seriously. I still can't get over just how big and beautiful Canada really is. We're really lucky to live here. I am sure about that.
We stayed at the Whispering Spruce Campground in Golden (just off the Trans Canada Highway). When we got there we were treated with 7 mountain goats (bigger than deer) hanging around outside the trees right beside our campsite. Sofie took a bunch of pictures of them and could be found for the 1st hour talking to them like old friends. I heard her come around the side of the truck and say "hi guys" in a slow southern drawl kind of way. I thought it was cute but I was also thinking "don't make eye contact" because they are pretty huge and they outnumbered us.
Mike and I had stayed at the Whispering Spruce on one of our trips across Canada so it was really cool to go back there and stay with our kids (and of course my mom and stepdad ;D).
It was also our first taste of mosquito free camping. There were very few bugs so we really liked hanging around outside the trailer (especially since it was crazy hot). The kids have an outrageous amount of mosquito bites my guess would be somewhere around 50+ each.
We have been on a streak of amazing weather which I hesitate to comment about for fear that I break it but I just can't help mentioning it since we couldn't have asked for better weather.
Tomorrow we'll be in West Bank and we're insanely excited to finally get there. Here are some pictures of our drive through Roger's Pass. I'll probably do another post about Rogers Pass because if memory serves me well I recall the drive towards Ontario through the pass is better (from a photo point of view).
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