Trouble on the mountain

Driving along in the mountains and suddenly ‘POP’… we were able to pull straight into a pullout fortunately. 77km before Banff.  

38C (100.4F) temperatures, climbing through the Rocky Mountains was just too much one of the coolant clamps.

A little snafu

A clamp had come loose in the inter-cooler pipe. Blue in bottom right corner.

We called CAA and they sent a truck. Very quickly in reality but seemed forever in that heat. 

I was able to make my Stinging Nettle Tea while we waited for the tow truck since Stacey had brought a camp stove and kettle.

Loaded and headed for Canmore, AB
 

Ducks, Storms and Internet Woes

It was beautiful up in the mountains yesterday, with the imminent threat of thunderstorms looming all day. It made for a much cooler day than we have been experiencing so far and Robbie was grateful for it.

Mountain Pond

Canada Geese

Taking a swim

Rain in the distance

Thunder clapped most of the day

Skies got progressively worse.

After a few torrential downpours it started to dissipate.

Now about our internet.

We don't have any.

There is an open network within range but it seems to have some kind of repeater that kicks us out randomly and its too short to get much done. The hosts that live up in the mountains gave us a wifi extender but because of the kicker-outer-thing it isn't helping. Will certainly help later on as we travel but right here, right now - nothing seems to work.

So if my posts are sporadic this is why (at least while we are here in the mountains). We have 13GB on our phones which is always an option but we like to keep that available for running around. Also there is no cell, phone or even CB radio coverage up in the Kananaskis mountains. I am rushing to get this posted before it boots me again...

We've arrived

We left Saskatoon yesterday morning at 830am and arrived in Canmore at 530pm. It made for a long day. Incidentally, we are not actually IN Canmore but rather just outside. We were met and taken to our 'host site' where we met a couple of the other hosts while getting ourselves hooked up.

This space is a little tight for our rig and we may be making alterations to the way we sit on the spot or could also move to another spot but we were so tired last night that we decided just to go with it as we are and make a decision about that once we were rested. I haven't taken any pics of our spot as yet.

The Host Sites are not within the campground proper but is our own little campground area tucked away from the masses. There are 5 sites here. Today we are to meet up at 11am at the 'shop' to be introduced and get more details on whats what and where, etc. Then tomorrow we will have a half day to get familiar with the job itself. We are provided with a campground truck, t-shirts, hat, etc.

I took a couple of pics yesterday and if it looks like it was taken from the driver's seat, rest assured it was taken from the back seat behind the driver.... :D

Welcome to Alberta

Lake at eastern entrance to the Rockies

Same lake showing the mountains in the background

The Three Sisters Mountain I mentioned yesterday, this time from MY camera.

There is only 1 bar of cell service at this location, so while it does work it is somewhat spotty. I will be asking about wifi today but until then I am running my laptop off my iPhone hotspot and lets face it - wifi is likely not available. We are literally in the bush at the base of - and surrounded by - mountains.