Radium Hot Springs

 Thursday Sept 30/21

We decided to go away for a few days and headed to B.C.

We were on the QE2 by about 9.A.M. with Caro at the wheel (we are using her Ford Escape- and listening to 60's on 6 of course).

A quick stop at Red Deer (Tim Horton's in Gasoline Alley) and then we were on the road to Canmore. Here we stopped at Subway and had a gas fill up. I found Canmore very busy and getting more and more like Banff. YUCK !!

We continued towards Lake Louise and then took highway 93 towards Radium. Highway 1 is closed near Golden so all traffic heading west had to take a detour down highway 93 to Radium before heading back towards Golden. Traffic got very heavy and slow at times.

We got to the hot springs about 3:45 and enjoyed an hour of relaxation and unwinding. Caro had driven from the Fort to Canmore and was quite tired. I had only driven about 90 minutes but it was stressful with all the traffic and the curvy mountain roads.

The photo above was taken as we left the hot springs. There were maybe three times as many people there when we arrived however even with covid restrictions there were no issues. Everybody's group  seemed to keep about a six foot difference from other people and everything went smoothly.

We got a motel room in town high up on the mountain so there isn't much traffic noise from the extremely busy highway. Our room has a nice view down into the valley

The road in the photo is the street that goes to the place in the valley where we stayed with Mike and Michelle a few years ago

We ate a local (recommended) pub (YUMMY) and came back early to our room to relax. The pub checked our vaccine status but didn't confirm that our vaccine card matched our drivers license name. I suspect it will be like that everywhere. 

It has been raining quite a bit this evening so we are hoping the hiking trails are not too bad in the morning.