Coquihalla Canyon Provincial Park

Othello Tunnel Trail is part of this park in Hope. It is on an old railroad bed that was built in 1913 and finished in 1916. Andrew McCulloch developed the amazing plan for a series of tunnels. With the tunnels in perfect alignment, and the 2 bridges between 3 of them he had found the route over the Coquihalla River Canyon below. 

The longest tunnel was very dark inside and in some there was water dripping.

The foot bridges were built on the original railroad trestles.

It was hot and I was ready for a swim. but decided at the last minute the water was too swift and too far away.

We had a great time and got a little exercise.

Hope BC Wood Carvings

Here is just a smattering of the many carvings in Hope.

                 

The Frasier River is in the background. 

Hope BC

It isn’t as smoky here. The town is a nice little town with wood cravings everywhere. They have a contest every year and the winner will have his craving displayed somewhere in town. As the carvings get old and broken then they are replaced with the new winners. The Frasier River runs through town and I was surprised how big it is.

This is the view out our door, you can tell it is still a little smoky at least we can see the mountains.

The streets in Hope are very wide and RV friendly

The Friendship Garden In the corner of the city park

Next come some of the chainsaw art.

Day Trip with Bill & Karen

We have friends in OR that inherited a lot here in Kettle Falls and it was my goal to try and find it. First try was a bust but I called the assessors office in Republic and she sent me the needed information. We headed out to find the lot and visit Stonerose Interruptive Center in Republic.

 

We found it this time and have determined he should but a slab down add electric, water, and septic tank so we can spend the summers here.

It has a great view of the Kettle River. Time to move on over the mountain through Curlew to Republic. Much to our surprise we found this very cool museum in Curlew and just had to stop.

Some very nice cars.

Time to move on to Republic to find the Stonerose fossils.

There is a large area where you can go up, for a fee, and dig for your own fossils. If you find something wonderful they have the right to keep it. You then get a letter stating where your particular fossil has ended up. We were too late to try and dig our own.

The Big Dig.

It was a busy day but we had a wonderful time.

Kettle Falls WA

We are here to visit friends Bill & Karen, Dick plans on playing a lot of pool with Bill and I plan on taking it easy on their deck watching the hummingbirds.

The have a great garden with veggies and flowers for the hummingbirds.

This is the view from the deck and Bill’s boat.

Bill’s spot when he isn’t playing pool. We had a great time there, so relaxing.

Crescent Bar TT 7/14/2010

We had not visited this park before and was pleasantly surprised by the view, 50 amps, very warm weather and a very clean park .

 

Morning coffee and my view what more could you ask for?

Geocaching 7/11/2010

We took our friends Debbie & Mitch and our grandson Geocaching near Randle WA. It was a short drive from Maple Grove RV ROD and a short walk up the trail to this falls and the cache.

We found the cache and exchanged trinkets.

We had a great time showing Debbie & Mitch how easy Geocaching was, Wyatt has gone with us before so he was and old hand at it.