day: 5 tearing up on the beautiful road to bc
After the grueling hike of yesterday, a rest day was in order; we enjoyed our morning at the hostel then made our way through the Rockies into bc for that sweet free camping!
enjoying the morning
Waking up past 9 with a fresh shower, we took our time and enjoyed our morning, worked on the pictures and blog of the previous days while talking over breakfast with our new friends from the hostel. Sharing stories and setting up a pseudo route for the weeks to come making sure we where going to see everything we wanted to see while not wasting all of our gas money.
camping in bc is rad.
With an idea in mind we headed off to bc for the abundant free camping. Alberta is absolutely beautiful but finding a place to camp for free is a lot more complicated then we imagined. so we decided to run away from that problem to bc! and wow… bc does not disappoint, off every highway you can find free recreational camping sites. If they are all full, no worries, as long as you are not disturbing anybody and there is no sign saying otherwise you can camp there! (in general, exceptions exists). With this in mind, we headed off on highway 1A west towards Banff making a few stops along the way,
tears of amazement where shed today
making our way out of Canmore into Banff, the views where outstandingly beautiful, with the sun starting to slowly start its decent the sky turned a fire-ish orange making the surrounding mountain contrast with the forests bellow. at every turn of the valley a new mountain more beautiful then the last showed itself the shear size of it all makes you realize how truly small we really are. the raging river in the middle of the flowing forests of bow valley below the towering peaks was overwhelmingly beautiful. while driving down, the realization that I was living my life long dream overflowed me with emotions as tears of joy started running down my face. what a place to be.
this is the reason we came here.
into bc we go!
slowly making our way through the valleys, amazed by the jaw dropping scenery before us ,we stopped at the border between bc and Alberta for supper, with a naturel rock table and gigantic mountains filled with glaciers we enjoyed our beef jerky noodles looking on in wonder of the days to come
finding a camp site
when it came to finding a camp site we wanted to find a place really epic to spend the night we tried to go to Wapta falls recreationally site but sadly the two available site were already taking (with hindsight we really could have there but we didn’t want to disturb the people that where already there) so instead we went to Fraser creek recreationally sight. a small meadow on the shore of a beautiful river flowing white and blue from the glaciers above. although absolutely beautiful, we where deep in bear country, deeper into the wilderness that we’ve ever gone before, being out of our comfort zones filled us with excitement as we settled in for the night.
