Our time in Osoyoos was fantastic. This is the wine capital of Canada and I haven't heard of it? Osoyoos is surrounded by desert, vineyards and mountains. Beautiful. With over 50 wineries how does one choose which one to visit. Most of them needed a reservation but we managed to visit three without.
We had smoke every day while visiting Osoyoos but the last day it cleared up and I was able to see and get an excellent picture of the town and lake.
A winery and a bakery? Whaaat? Yes, Platinum Bench pairs their wines with home baked bread baked right on the premises. These breads are so delicious. We bought these two loaves to have for the evening's spaghetti dinner.
One winery even had a Weinery! These are gourmet hot dogs that are super popular, we did not have one but we heard awesome things.
After Osoyoos and stops in Rossland and Cranbrook to visit people, we stayed at a VRBO right at Fernie Alpine Resort. This was a townhome with a full kitchen as we like to cook most meals.
One can buy a lot for around $300,000 and put a home like this at the ski hill. Look at these beautiful, tremendous timbers! Wow.
We are loving our hikes. We did three in Fernie but one will be memorable! After about one hour or so on Montane Trail we headed back but took a different path than the one we took in. This path had silty sand and not the usual pebbles and gravel. We saw the stroller marks of two moms we saw earlier. However...... after we saw two bear Scats (sh&%), I was getting nervous. Well, I GOT REAL NERVOUS, WHEN we saw bear tracks right on top of the tracks of the stroller. Fresh tracks! We have bear spray but Paul has one in pocket and mine is on my back pack. Well, no longer. Paul had his bear spray in his hand along with the mini horn and I took my bear spray out and put directly in my hand. We started talking louder, clapping hands and hope the bear will get off the path if ahead. It turns out the tracks actually back tracked along the path at a certain point and went into the forest. I was so glad to see a paved road. Not near our car unfortunately, another 2 km away, but I did not mind.
Montane Trail
While on the Montane Trail up high we looked across and saw Fernie's Ski Hill which was where our townhome was. A nice day for a hike.
Bear Tracks, I did not post pictures of the Scat
Fairy Falls Trail, real nice (no bears)
This is a picture of thousands of pieces of slate falling down on our pathway. I only took a few pieces as it was a good 45 minutes back. I would have taken buckets full for my rock painting, hahaha.
This is a sign in a window in downtown Fernie, a Ski paradise!
Crowsnest Highway 3 is 841 km long, very beautiful
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