Denisa loves fresh vegetables--especially garden peas. In Oklahoma the summer gets too hot for peas to produce, so it's weird to find them at markets in August. These were some of the biggest and best garden peas she's ever found.
Besides buying home-baked goodies like caramel cinnamon rolls, hazelnut coffee cake and a pretzel stick, we also took time to do some baking at home. We bought a bag of too-ripe bananas at the local grocery store, and that started a frenzy of baking. Before the day was over we baked 6 medium loaves of banana nut bread, and this double batch of healthy breakfast cookies. That's some good healthy snacks to have in the freezer!
It was also a good day to get the second replacement board for our ailing electric transfer switch. Mark had determined that this board was the problem when we first pulled into the campground in Banff 20 days ago. The first board that was mailed to us was faulty, and Mark was glad to see that this second board looks good.
Denisa doesn't even pretend to understand how it works, but Mark worked his magic and tested it. We now have a fully-functional electrical transfer switch! Whew!
Staying close to home also allowed us to face-time with our granddaughter and her parents back in Kansas City. That's the hardest part of traveling so far and so long. We miss getting to see our relatives! We finished the evening at Golden's weekly live music show at Spirit Square, which was just a bike ride away from our camping spot.
Golden is situated in the valley between several mountainous national parks. While we headed west towards Glacier National Park earlier, another day we headed east a few miles back to Yoho National Park. That's because we wanted to go on a much-recommended hike to Wapta Falls.
After so many steep hikes, the trail to Wapta Falls was refreshingly level! That is, until the end, when we kept thinking we could get a better angle for a better picture of the falls if we kept going. This is the largest waterfall on Kicking Horse River--the same river that flows directly in front of our motor home campground space.
But when we scrambled all the way to the base of the falls, we found this strange dirt mound that almost completely obscured our view of the waterfall.
We watched as several people tried to climb that big dirt mound to get a clear view of the waterfall. But none of them got very far. That's when Mark got out his rain coat and headed where no man had gone--through the mist to the top.
Denisa volunteered to stay on the river, to take pictures from a distance. It was hard to even see his silhouette as he got to the top of the hill. That's when he realized that his hands were too wet and the water was too thick to unlock his phone to take the picture. Besides, as heavy as the mist was around him, he could hardly see the waterfall.
So he returned through the mist without a picture, totally soaked from head to toe.
He usually wears his contacts on hiking days, but he had his glasses today. It was a little hard to see that close-up view through those wet lenses.
As we head back up from the river to the overlook, it is more interesting to see that dirt hill where Mark took his soggy extra hike today.
The level hike back to the car allowed time for Mark's clothes to dry out before we made the drive back to our campground in Golden. We're still enjoying the bounty of things to do around Golden, British Columbia!
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