Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Had a lazy morning, then
went into Golden to check things out. We are early for the summer season;
things don’t start kicking around here until after the next weekend. That’s a
little disappointing because we wanted to ride the Gondola up to the top of the
mountain where there is a restaurant and the views are suppose to be fantastic!
So, we walked through a
little of the historical section and then had a late lunch out on the patio overlooking
the Kicking Horse River. The most outstanding thing we saw in Golden was the
pedestrian bridge over the Kicking Horse River.
During the bleak days of 9/11
the entire community of Golden, along with other volunteers joined forces and
built this bridge, completely of wood.
The bridge is the longest free standing
timber framed bridge in Canada, spanning 151’. The bridge weighs about 210,000
pounds and was constructed of 72,000 board feet of Douglas-Fir timbers.
The bridge connects the
Rotary walking/biking trails that surround the town, and at one end of the
bridge is a lovely pavilion bursting with the color of spring flowers,
which is
also carried out into the town where there are baskets full of flowers hanging
all over town.
After lunch, we drove up
to the Kicking Horse Resort where Fran went horseback riding today. I met the
lady who gives the rides and she believes they have a horse I can ride, so we
are both going riding tomorrow…if it doesn’t rain. We have an alert that this
area is suppose to receive heavy rains tomorrow, so we will see.
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