Can't go to Fort Steele

Tonight we are in Cranbrook, British Columbia, only 15 miles from Fort Steele, after traveling 300+ miles from Jasper. We are on our way to the Coeur d'Alene area to visit Marlene and her family and to get the 50,000 mile servicing on the car. (An average of 2,777 miles a month that we have driven. That's life on the road!)

This morning we moved our campground from Wabasso to Whistlers, about 7 miles closer to Jasper townsite. We thought we were moving to a campsite that had electricity and water, but it turns out that we have only electricity and no water hook-up, just as it was at Wabasso.  The good news is that have have gotten very proficient at managing the water so that we will be able to go the whole two weeks without having to refill our fresh water tank or dump our holding tanks.

When we left Jasper at noon it was still only 45 degrees and rain was threatening.

The rain held off until after we passed the ice fields and this glacier next to Athabasca Glacier. However, within twenty minutes it began to rain and continued raining until we arrived in Cranbrook.

The sign for Fort Steele, and...

a little bit of the heritage town that can be seen from the road.

(All photos courtesy of Frederick who took them out of the window of the moving car.)