Our Last Month in Nelson

Our last month in Nelson was full of water activities and mountain vistas as we tried to squeeze in all the things on the “must do before we leave” list.

We headed out in search of a natural waterslide north of Castlegar. Here it is before we got up the nerve to jump in the freezing water.

Here is the movie of us in the chute!

We also went tubing on the Slocan river, which we don`t actually have any pictures of. But there are some pictures of Josie on Facebook that a friend took while we were tubing.

Our first big hike of September took us to the famous and controversial Jumbo Pass, Northeast of Kootenay Lake.

View from Jumbo Pass

More view

Glaciers!

Scott

Scott and Josie

We camped the night and hiked to the MacBeth Icefields the next day. This picture is of the waterfall coming from the valley that the glacier field is in.

Seems like a glacier might have pasted here not long ago...hmmm

More evidence of glaciers.

Our last big hike was in Valhalla Provincial Park, west of Slocan. We hiked to the Gwillim Lakes Basin. Lots of good scenery along the way and not particularly grueling.

Josie ponders the reality of leaving the mountains.

Scott overlooking the valley

It snowed a little on the way up and when we got to the basin there was fresh snow in the mountains and snow on the ground...yay September!

That is one huge hunk of granite... I guess this is why the Valhallas are famous in mountaineering circles