Enjoyed the drive from Fernie, passing places like Kootenay Lake which is a hundred-mile-long picture extravaganza:
Kootenay is one of five similar lakes running North-South, separated by mountain ranges. I wound my way through the peaks from Kootenay to Slocan, the next lake to the West, where my friends Rick and Barbara Tegeler have a magnificent log cabin home high on a mountainside overlooking the lake. Here's the morning view from the patio:
Sadly, there are some big lightning-caused forest fires around, and the air is smoky. Photographer becomes hysterical.
Yesterday, Rick and Barbara took me out on their boat for a day on the lake. Note the rough seas:
At a pleasant beach, we wandered a short way into the forest to see Nemo Falls:
Rick is an authority on gold and silver mining history, and has visited hundreds of mine sites in California, Nevada and now at an enormous silver rush which occurred here not long after California's gold rush. We took his ATV through the forest high above the lake to the site of a gold mine that ran four miles into the mountain. This is a giant pile of tailings:
Off in the morning to Banff, where the weather forecast is for sunny skies, and with luck the mountains will block all this smoke.
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