Dam. We did the dam tour. And it was dam good. Pics of our cross Canada trip.

[Voyageurs]

I’m not sure if Neal wants to move this to another area but we’ll start out here. We have been on the road for about 5 days working our way slowly from the BC interiour to Quebec City Quebec. I thought this board was a good place to track our journey. Our first night was in Revelstoke and the next day we went to see the Revelstoke Dam. Pictures are limited for security reasons but we got a good one outside of Jarvis (our Tesla) in front of the Dam. Coincidentally this is the dam that feeds the grid to our little town about 160 kilometres away so Jarvis got to meet the source of his electrons.

I would recommend the tour to anyone. Our lady who conducted the tour was very knowledgeable. It was 7 bucks and lasted about an hour and 15 minutes. This dam has been finished for about 39 years but they still have capacity for one more turbine as needs grow. They estimate that is probably still 10 years away. They added a turbine about 10 years ago so now there are 5.

When I was in high school our grade 12 glass toured the Mica Dam which is about 140 kilometres upstream. Pretty cool.

We’ll post some more a little later.

 

[Voyageurs]

We stayed in the lamplighter campground in Revelstoke. Good experience. Lots of rental RV’s there mostly Germans, Dutch and French. Nice folks. There was also an accordion player. Just kinda made it a memorable stay.

There is also a train museum in Revelstoke as it is and always has been a railway town. Lots of history there.

Revelstoke is worth at least a 2 day stop. And if you are a hiker or biker even more. We were there 3 nights and we would go back for another 3. But there is more to see out there and we need to keep moving. On to Golden for a couple days. We’ll post pics then.

 

[sanda]

I operated and maintained a dam in Colorado till retirement. They called me the dam guy. (when they were being nice).

 

[Rich W.]

Grand Coulee in Wa is another good one for a tour.

 

[Voyageurs]

Grand Coulee in Wa is another good one for a tour.

My dad took me there when I was a little kid. I would like to see it again as an adult. All the water that passes thru the Mica and Revelstoke Dam end up at Grand Coulee.

 

[Rich W.]

Its impressive and they also do a laser light show on the dam at night during the summer. The Spring Canyon CG is close enough to the dam and far enough away from town to be a nice experience.

 

[Voyageurs]

Its impressive and they also do a laser light show on the dam at night during the summer. The Spring Canyon CG is close enough to the dam and far enough away from town to be a nice experience.

It’s on our list now. Thank you.

 

[Voyageurs]

Not much to add today. We came thru Rogers pass yesterday. Long slow grind up the hill as there are not a lot of passing lanes and many of them are short. We just hung out with the semis in the right lane. We stopped at the visitors centre and took in the history. There is also a museum for a nominal fee. Good bathrooms. They had a BC hydro fast charge station there so we took advantage of that. According to my receipt we were there for 23 minutes and cost us 5.07. It’s only a 50 kw charger so maybe don’t plan on it as an enroute charger but rather as a convenient concurrent event while costing the museum. I think we took on 18 kWh in total. There are some amazing picture ops there but we kinda hit bad weather so we took one shot of the car at the charger and headed for the little museum.

The trails were still closed (and snow covered) so no hiking shots.

Couple of stops to mention. The first is actually a stop we made a few days ago that I forgot to mention. The last spike at craiglachee was an interesting stop if you are a history buff like us. It’s the point where the CPR finished the east west connection if the railway. Interesting reading and nice spot for a break. Good parking for any sized RV or RV truck combo. Here’s a quick shot for reference.

We’ll hopefully have a few more interesting shots the next time. We are currently in Golden. Here for a couple nights and then on to points east.

 

[Voyageurs]

Our next stop was Golden BC and we stayed in the municipal campground. The prose are it’s on the kicking horse river and has great views of the Selkirk mountains. If you like trains you’ll love this place, and if you don’t, not so much. If you can get the furthest sites away from the office as they are the nicest. Some sites are serviced. All are good.

There is lots of good hiking both in the campground and at various locations in the area. The town is kinda cutesy and has lots of history. It also has a covered bridge built by craftsman all over the world including apprentices from Pennsylvania and New York. It was built in 2001.

Here are a few pics of our stay.

 

[Voyageurs]

One more quick entry. We stopped at field. An old Railway town between Golden and Banff. We did some opportunity charging while we visited the town. It’s worth a walk though. Some great old architecture. Now it’s just mostly bed and breakfasts that deal with overflow from Lake Louise skiers in winter and Hikers in summer. Worth a visit. Population 170. Kind of eclectic. It’s a national parks town now.

The charger is a BC Hydro 50 kw unit. Kinda slow. 21 cents a minute so not cheap. But again, opportunity charging is handy. Here’s a few pics. Beautiful area. Great river hiking.

 

[Voyageurs]

We travelled from Golden to drumheller a few days ago. We stopped at the Supercharger in Canmore. That supercharger is kinda trailer friendly as one can access any of the stations from either side. So we kinda occupied the one side and everybody else the other. We made it work.

Drumheller. What can I say. Definitely worth the trip. We have wanted to see the royal Tyrell museum for a long time. Very worth it. If you are a Canadian veteran with a CF1 card it’s free, We are. Woohoo. . Otherwise it’s 14 bucks for seniors and 21 bucks for everyone else. If you are a dinosaur afficionado it is the place in the world to go. Plan on at least 4 hours and 6 is better. Also some good hiking thru the badlands in the area. But bring good boots. Runners don’t cut it.

We stayed at a campground about 12 kilometres out of town. The hoodoos campground. It is close to some good hiking but if we had to do it again we would stay at the campground right in town. The visitor centre right across the bridge has free EV charging as well 11 KW. We took a couple hour walk around the centre and river area and took advantage of the free charging.

The hoodoos campground was clean and well run. There is a large section for permanents but they are more of a weekend getaway type bunch. Laundry, showers, 30 amp service only.

So far not one campground has had anything other than 30 amp service. Here’s a shot of our site. Remember. This is the badlands. .

On to Saskatchewan tomorrow. We will be stopping to visit family on the way back but not one on the way out.

Cheers.

 

[Chargerman]

Great read. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Voyageurs]

Yesterday we had a long day. We covered 530 kilometres as well as got some much needed shopping and restocking done as well as refilled our propane tank.

Our trailer has a single 20 lb tank and we keep a 5 pounder in the same compartment as an emergency backup. Anyway, very little to show in the way of pics as we are not touring this part of the trip. That will start again when we get to Ontario. Sorry for the boring pics but here are a couple of the superchargers we stopped at just to give an idea of their configuration etc.

This first one is a drive in trailer stall. Some of the supercharger sites have one or sometimes two of these site. You drive in and the charger is right beside the port.

This one we screwed up on. We could have parked on the other side and not blocked any sites. Duh.

Last night we stayed in the village of Chaplin campground. 15 bucks for a powered site but only 15 amps. Meh. It’s all good. Oh, and that’s not snow in the background, it’s a kind of salt that’s mined in the area. Cute little town. A few hundred people. Friendly folks.
Should be close to the Ontario border by tomorrow.

 

[Voyageurs]

Another pretty boring day. We made the mistake of following the navigation into Winnipeg to use the Supercharger. I should have just used a Chademo charger on the ring road but not being familiar with Winnipeg…. Let’s just say don’t go into Winnipeg unless you really have.
2 of the three superchargers we used today had trailer stalls…and this one didn’t. It was however quiet so we didn’t have to unhook.

Anyway, we made it into Ontario. We have one more long day and then we’ll dial it back into touring mode. We’ll be offline for a bit and will post some pics next week.

Cheers

 

[Voyageurs]

Ok. I’m not telling you where we are. I’ll put up the picture and give a hint or two.

This place leaves you with a superior impression and there is a large body of wawater near it.