Revelstuck ...

So this post follows this one ....

So after Whistler and our excitement of Dog Sledding we got back into Freddie and head further north. From Whistler we drove to Lillooet where we stayed the night. There isn't much to be said about this town to be honest except that it reminded me of the Clyde, Cromwell Area near Alexandra in New Zealand. We stayed in a Motel run by a really nice Asian couple in the "CBD" of the town. When we were looking at the room to see if we would take it I was slightly behind Kim and still on the staircase when she have already gotten to the Reception desk. When I over heard the following statement from Kim "I pay now"  it took all my will power not to piss my pants laughing, yes we did pay now.

The next day we set of for Revelstoke where we would stay the night before attempting to cross the Rocky Mountains. When we got to Revelstoke we were great with snow and the areas that they haven't snow plowed were about a metre deep with about 2 inches on the road.  The room itself was rather interesting as it was on a lean and the bathroom door didn't actually close but it was home for the night.

Freddie covered in snow the next day

The next morning we woke to a foot of snow surrounding Freddie and when we checked out the lady at the Gas Station said the Pass was closed till 10am and introduced us to the term Revelstuck a nickname the town got thanks to snow storms. We decided to go have breakfast in the restaurant that's attached to the Motel and didn't get on the road till noon.  We headed to another gas station as the one attached to our Motel was out of gas. While filling up with gas we had to teach ourselves how to put on snow chains. As no-one could tell us how to do it in a town that on a regular bases get snowed in, did I mentioned that we only have summer tyres on Freddie.

We um'ed and ah'ed if we should or shouldn't cross the pass. In the end we vote yes so of we set in Freddie with no heater with his summer tyres and snow chains on the back wheels. Which meant we could't go above 50km/h so the whole trip across the mountain which was about 137km took 4 hours to do. We finally made it into Banff around 8pm in one piece and minus some paint thanks to one of the chains having a loose bit that scrapped the side of the wheel hub.

Below is a short video of us driving in the Rockies ...