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The Mountain Stage is the seventh and final stage of our Tour across Canada to celebrate the Motorcycle Ride for Dad’s ten year fight against prostate cancer. A Tour that also highlighted the support of all Canadaians for our troops. It begins where the Prairie Stage left us, high in northern Alberta, at Edmonton. We take this opportunity to hold our second Motorcycle Service Day. With that done, time has come for us to turn south, it is late August, and winter in Alberta can’t be far off. Before we tackle the mountains, we will leave Edmonton, the City of Champions and head straight south to the Stampede City, Calgary. We will meet with our Calgary Chapter before heading on to Banff for the night.. The Mountain Stage is 8 days of what arguably could be the most beautiful scenery in Canada. We head into the foothills from Calgary, and swing north west through Banff and the famous Lake Louise before heading west into the Rogers Pass through the Selkirk Mountains to Revelstoke. We turn south and follow the course of the beautiful Columbia River, crossing Upper Arrow Lake on a ferry and swinging south east across the Central Kootneys to the Slocan River valley and on to Nelson. We travel further south and west across the top of the US border before swing back north up the West Kettle River valley to Kelowna and a meet with our Okanagan Chapter. We travel north up the Okanagan valley to rejoin Hwy.#1 at Salmon Arm and a swing west into Kamloops. Leaving Kamloops traveling west we swing south down the Thompson & Fraser River Valleys to Hope, and then south west to Chilliwack for a lunchtime meet with our Westcoast Chapter. We continue west from there to Delta. On the last day we head north from Delta through Vancouver to the ferry at Horseshoe Bay, and crossing to Vancouver Island at Nanaimo. Finally we travel south down the island on Hwy.#1 Langford and a parade into CFB Esquimalt for the End of Tour Celebration
Total Stage Time: 8 days
Total Stage Mileage: 2,0778 km.
Accommodation Required: 8 nights
Stage Start: Edmonton Alta
Stage End: Victoria BC
Tolls: two
Events: (1) Parade- (1) Military Ceremony, Assorted dinners and breakfasts.
Day.1 Sunday August 22nd
Motorcycle Service Day.
Sunday is our second Motorcycle Service Day before we head into the mountains. Also a great opportunity for some local sight seeing.
Day.2 Monday August 23rd
Monday morning we roll out south on Hwy #2 and or Hwy#2a through Red Deer and on to Calgary. We will have meet with our Calgary Chapter, before continuing on to Banff.
We spend the night in: Banff Alberta
Distance Traveled: 481Km
Some of the towns we will pass through, or close to on Day #2
Nisku, Leduc, Kavanaugh, Pipestone, Wetaskiwin, Ponoka, Morningside, Lacombe, Blackfalds, Swan Lake, Red Deer, Innisfail, Bowden, Didsbury, Carstairs, Airdrie Seebe, Exshaw, Canmore, Harvie Heights, Banff.
If you are out and about, come gives us a wave!
Day.3 Tuesday August 24th
Tuesday we embark on what maybe the most spectacular day of the Tour as we tackle the mountains, heading for an overnight in the Selkirk Mountains We head off through the foothills on Hwy#1to beautiful Lake Louise where we turn west through the Rocky Mountains. We cross the Roger’s Pass and the Selkirk Mountains to Revelstoke.
We stay the night in Revelstoke BC.
Distance Traveled : 254 km
Some of the towns we will pass through, or close to on Day #3:
SCastle Mountain, Lake Louise, Golden, Donald, Rogers Pass, Glacier, Canyon Hot Springs, Revelstoke.
If you are out and about, come give us a wave !
Day.4 Wednesday August 25th
Wednesday morning we leave Hwy#1 and head south down the west bank of the Columbia River Valley on Hwy.#23. At Shelter Bay we grab the Ferry across the top of Upper Arrow Lake to the east side of the valley and continue south. At the bottom end of the Lake we hook up with Hwy.#6, and run east a bit over the Central Kootenay range to New Denver then drop south down the Slocan River Valley to South Slocan. We take a short jaunt east on Hwy 3A into Nelson.
We stay the night in Nelson BC.
Distance Traveled : 245 km
Some of the towns we will pass through, or close to on Day #4:
Shelter Bay , Galena Bay, Nakusp, New Denver, Silverton , Slocan, Winlaw,Vallican,Taghum,Nelson.
If you are out and about, come give us a wave !
Day.5 Thursday August 26th
Thursday morning we head back west on Hwy.#3A to just past Castlegarwhere we pick up Hwy.#3 and weave along through the Monashee Mountains just north of the US border to Rock Creek. We turn due north on Hwy.#33 up the Kettle River valley to Rutland and then sing west into Kelowna. We have a supper meeting with our Okanagan Chapter in Kelowna.
We stay the night in Kelowna BC.
Distance Traveled : 332 km
Some of the towns we will pass through, or close to on Day #6:
South Slocan, Glade, Thrums, Castlegar, Paulson, Christina Lake, Grand Forks, Midway, Beaverdell, Rutland, Kelowna.
If you are out and about, come give us a wave !
Day.6 Friday August 27th
Friday morning we head north and then west on Hwy #97 to Vernon, then continue on Hwy.#97A to Hwy.#97B to Salmon Arm, we rejoin Hwy.#1 west to Kamloops.
We stay the night in Kamloops BC.
Some of the towns we will pass through, or close to on Day #6:
Duck Lake, Oyama,Coldstream,Vernon, Spallumcheen , Enderby , Grindrod, Salmon Arm, Notch Hill, Pritchard, Monte Creek, Kamloops.
If you are out and about, come give us a wave !
Day.7 Saturday August 28th
Saturday is a full day. We continue west on Hwy#1/97 to Cache Creek where we drop south on Hwy.#1 to Hope.and then west on to Chilliwack. In Chilliwack will meet up with the MRFD Westcoast Chapter who are travelling out from Delta to meet us. We all then return to Delta on Hwy.#1.
We stay the night in Delta BC.
Distance travelled: 425 km
Some of the towns we will pass through, or close to on Day #7:
Savona, Ashcroft, Spences Bridge, Lytton, North bend, Boston Bar. Spuzzam, Yale, Hope, Laidlaw, Chilliwack ,Abbotsford, Langley, Delta.
If you are out and about, come give us a wave !
Day.8 Sunday August 29th
Sunday morning dawns on the final day of our Cross-Canada Tour ! We will meet for breakfast then take Hwy#99 north through the tunnel to Richmond and on northward across Vancouver to Hwy#1A/99 making our way across the Lion’s Gate Bridge to North Vancouver and hooking up once again with Hwy #1 . we swing west on Hwy.#1 to the Ferry at Horshoe Bay. We cross to Vancouver Island, landing at Nanaimo. We will meet our Comox & Vancouver Island Chapters there before we rejoin Hwy #1 and head southdown Island to Langford. From Langford we will parade into CFB Esquimalt for the tour wind up Ceremonies..
We stay the night in Victoria BC
Distance travelled: 99 km
Some of the towns we will pass through, or close to on Day #8:
Richmond,Burnaby,Vancouver, Nanaimo, South Wellington, Ladysmith, Duncan, Cowichan Bay, Malahat , Langford Esquaimalt.
If you are out and about, come give us a wave !
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