Day 22

One of my glove liners had been giving me grief for the last week and it finally fell apart so before I left Grand Prairie I looked for a new pair but didn't find anything so I continued to Grand Cache where I pumped gas and took a break.

There was another biker there that had a motorcycle I didn't recognize so we talked a bit. He had purchased a Harley Davidson engine and built the motorcycle around it from parts he purchased or made. We visited on the curb for about 30 minutes. He was from Dawson Creek and had a Yooper accent with a pronounced "eh". Real friendly guy... a few others came by and looked at the bikes.

A nice lake I stopped at. No bugs here.

My goal was to reach a hot spring either in the Banff area or maybe even Radium and stay the night there. So I started into the Jasper park area and had stopped for dinner in Jasper.

Turned out that they had just closed all the roads south of Jasper due to fires so had to detour west about 90 miles and then turn south. Never did get to a hot spring.

Stayed the night at Valemount.