Day 9 - Kaslo, BC - a climb to remember

It was interesting to watch Kaitlin the last couple of days. I think I could see in her what everyone was feeling. She has been worried for days about the climb that we were to do today. We woke today to a pretty cool morning. It was in the high 30's, but we did dress accordingly last night so both of us slept quite comfortably.

We got a little later start due to the cold, but as we left New Denver, we started climbing immediately. We were heading east and crossing from the western side of these Selkirk Mountains to the eastern side. We had a 2,000 ft climb, which doesn't sound too bad, but the climb was in 8 miles, which we were worried about the grade. Kait and I just took our time and stopped about every 30 minutes and it went really well. Kait has done so well on trip. The downhill was just spectacular. It lasted for about 20 miles and was just so full of beauty. There was a creek that we followed and we saw waterfalls, beaver ponds, lakes, beautiful streams, etc etc. I do think that this ride has ranked in the top three most beautiful places I have ever visited.

We ended up traveling 30 miles today and kind of got here earlier than we usually do. That was nice. We could just read or take a nap and we all enjoyed that. We are in Kaslo, BC. It is just a small resort town on the shores of the Kootenay Lake.

I do have a Sunday School lesson I realized today. As we were climbing, I thought, "why doesn't the road more follow the creek up the mountain instead of climbing much quicker than the creek". At that point i was not wanting to climb as quickly as we were. Then as I reached the top of the climb I realized how steep things would have had to be had the road just followed creek. The engineers realized that a consistent climb is best. Many times in life, Heaven Father has us experience things in His own timetable because he knows the things that we must know and experience to helps through things that will come later in life. He is the Engineer of our life and will help us consistently grow and learn if we will but look to Him.