Waterton Lakes International Peace Park is the Canadian part of Glacier International Peace Park in the US. Canada already had a Glacier NP, near Revelstoke, so that was taken.
Rain, rain, rain, rain, and more rain. It’s pouring outside and it’s 45F inside ;-( Everything is wet, and because it’s cold and wet, nothing is drying out. Laundry tomorrow! Without Fail! I gotta get some of this stuff dry!
The trip to Waterton Lakes Park was uneventful except that it rained every minute from getting up this AM in Banff, to getting to the park. The GPS is hopeless about finding campgrounds, so I wandered about for a while before actually finding the campground entrance. Then getting set up on a site that’s mostly 4” under water, in a downpour wasn’t fun, but it got done. The biggest issue was that I kept forgetting things, and after getting into the trailer, and taking off the rain gear, I’d have to put it all back on just to turn on the propane, or….
I can get the local WiFi to work on my phone but not on the damned laptop ;-( So I’m back to typing to an unseen audience. I can stay in touch w/ Lynne and others, but it’s a pita not being able to get and keep a connection, when it works on the phone. No connection means no FB, no WWW, no entertainment value. The connection seems to come and go. Very frustrating.
There might be some mountains here, but I sure can’t see them. Can’t see much more than 20 yds across the campground. There’s a waterfall just behind the campground that’s roaring, but there’s no place to park and it’s gonna require a sizable hike.
Wet Waterton Lakes International Peace Park
I’m going to take the laptop and see if I can find a pizza parlor for dinner tonight. I had lunch in the trailer this afternoon by the side of the road, and I need some fuel! And some warm air.
When I prepared for this trip, I prepared for the kind of rain I experienced on the Oregon-Washington coast last year, intermittent rain with sunny spells in between. And 50ºF to 60ºF temps. I didn’t count on 6 straight days of almost continuous rain, and temps that haven’t reached 50ºF in a week. I brought only two sets of long underwear tops and bottoms. One set is on me, the other set is wet.
Suddenly I have an internet connection. Dunno why or how. Make hay… The connection is slow and flakey. I can’t seem to connect to some servers or domains. Again dunno what’s up.
This is fairly surreal, I’m watching “The Producers” on the laptop with the stove burner heating the toaster plate (a metal plate with a wire rack for holding the toast), in an “inch an hour” rainstorm. It would be 10ºF cooler in here if I weren’t running the toaster. It converts direct convective heat into IR radiative heat. Important in heating a space.
My campsite is a lake.
I’m really glad I’m not in the teardrop tonight! The Lo-Liner has some small measure of heat. I can change clothes and get in and out of bed without getting wet.
Still raining hard. Trucks and tanks as MikeZ would say. Local flood warnings according to Natasha at the Peace Park Pizza parlor. No letup forecast for tomorrow. Pix in the rain. After Laundromat.