July 21st 2016 - Golden and arrival at Paska Lake

July 14th - Golden

We arrived by 2 pm at the Golden Community Campground to find it's fully booked for the next couple of days. They suggested we try the old KOA, Whispering Spruce Campground, a few minutes away on the other side of the river, so we did. We managed to get a fairly nice spot for 2 days and possibly one more so I could do some laundry and hopefully tour a little in the area. (full hookup with 30 amp power) Unfortunately, the campsite is well treed, so no satellite signal for TV. The bathrooms here are terrible, but the new ownership is trying to clean things up. The laundry facilities were all upgraded so I guess the bathrooms with be next. The weather upon arrival is quite nice and sunny, so once being all set up, we found a pub which serves local craft beer and ate lunch/dinner.

Since then, however, it showered with thundershowers quite frequently in the night. Definitely not Freya's favorite thing.

Friday I did laundry and grocery shopping and we stayed pretty close to home with the rain. Homemade lasagna is on the menu with extra to freeze. We're hoping to tour a little bit on Saturday, but woke up to more rain, so I think that it'll be a bust. Ray did manage to get a few pictures of the Rocking Horse River Pedestrian Bridge near the pub we were at before the weather turned awful. There are walking paths on both sides of the river.

At this time of year people are usually tubing down the river, but it's been so wet the river is way too high.

By Friday afternoon with rain pouring and the forecast being for more rain for 2 more days, we made the decision to go straight through Revelstoke. So we canceled our reservation as we wouldn't be able to see anything anyways and will head for Paska Lake. Saturday morning, we were on the road by 8:15 heading towards Salmon Arm. We made great time and were glad we're travelling on the weekend because there would've been lots of road construction delays. The clouds finally parted once we hit Albert Canyon and we finally saw some snow covered mountains. We overnighted in the Piccadilly Mall in Salmon Arm and left early Sunday morning for Paska Lake.  We waited half an hour for the site we wanted to clear and moved on in … right on the water so easy access for Ray’s pontoon boat. Good thing we arrived on Sunday as on Monday there were at least 5 rigs pulled in and took all the other water sites available. 

Paska Lake