{"id":1922,"date":"2016-10-12T15:21:45","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T15:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/old.cherylhill.net\/blog\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2020-01-11T21:08:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T21:08:24","slug":"canadian-rockies-day-11-columbia-headwaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2016\/10\/12\/canadian-rockies-day-11-columbia-headwaters\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Rockies Day 11: Columbia Headwaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 6, 2016<\/p>\n<p>The last day of our trip was gray and rainy so we did not hike. Instead we drove down to the little community of Canal Flats. There&#8217;s a little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canalflats.com\/content\/source-columbia-river\">interpretive trail<\/a> winding through the wetlands there and we wanted to see it because these wetlands are where the mighty Columbia River begins. I live near the river about 1,200 miles downstream where it is wide and HUGE. It was very cool to see the spot where it all begins.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c6.staticflickr.com\/9\/8600\/30187004621_0ec9e52f0c_c.jpg\" alt=\"Head of the Columbia\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/9\/8410\/29641770704_53d5f4c597_c.jpg\" alt=\"Head of the Columbia\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The wetland is at the head of Columbia Lake. We stopped at a roadside viewpoint off Highway 95 to check out the view of the lake.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c3.staticflickr.com\/8\/7472\/29649869434_77a25072a2_c.jpg\" alt=\"Columbia Lake\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With such wet miserable weather, we had perfect conditions for visiting the hot springs. (On a side note, I don&#8217;t get the attraction of visiting hot springs during warm weather.) So we went to Radium Hot Springs and enjoyed a nice hot soak.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/britishcolumbia.com\/things-to-do-and-see\/attractions\/hot-springs\/radium-hot-springs\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c4.staticflickr.com\/6\/5335\/29651064603_86cce7f3e0_c.jpg\" alt=\"RadiumHotSprings\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After eating dinner in Invermere we found a geocache with a view. Well, not today, as the day&#8217;s clouds were clinging to the mountains.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c4.staticflickr.com\/6\/5687\/30186998931_247e8c3d23_c.jpg\" alt=\"Non-view in Invermere\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the way back to the hotel we saw a bighorn sheep near the road. Based on the signs and warnings we saw all over this area, the sheep love to hang out here and are a common sight.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c8.staticflickr.com\/6\/5343\/30186997991_0b26a29f8d_c.jpg\" alt=\"Bighorn Sheep\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was the view looking west from our hotel that evening. A beautiful sight to end our trip with!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/6\/5724\/30272650705_a11d4e4229_c.jpg\" alt=\"Sunset view\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So that was our Canadian Rockies trip! What an insanely gorgeous place. We definitely want to go back and do more exploring and hiking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2016\/10\/06\/canadian-rockies-day-10-bugaboo-pass\/\"><< Day 10: Bugaboo Pass<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 6, 2016 The last day of our trip was gray and rainy so we did not hike. Instead we<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2016\/10\/12\/canadian-rockies-day-11-columbia-headwaters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Canadian Rockies Day 11: Columbia Headwaters<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[165],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3099,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions\/3099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}