It's amazing how quickly the scenery changes on this trip. One minute we're camping in the desert, then cruising through the mountains, and the next minute we're surrounded by forests in the lowlands and there isn't a mountain in sight.The highlight of the trip today - we saw three bears! That just leaves moose, bison, wolves, caribou and elk left to see!
About halfway through the trip we lost the radio - the whole CD player that I just had installed was shorting out. At the same time, our auxilary battery went completely dead - I had a feeling it had something to do with the solinoid I just put in before the trip so we stopped to have a VW mechanic take a look at it. Yeah, would you believe there was actually a VW dealer out here? And that one of them was old enough to know something about air cooled VW's? We definitely got lucky. Apparently the solinoid wasn't grounded properly - a new wire was added and it works beautifully! And we got the CD player back. Man, I can only imagine how long of a ride it would be without some tunes. Tonight we're camping about 10 miles North/East of Chetwyld in a place that Adam has named "Death Camp" due to the fact that there are animal hides everywhere - the fur looks just like bear, some sort of cat or wolf, and who knows what else. I went for a short run to explore the area but then got to thinking - if there are this many dead animals out here, I'm sure there are just as many lives ones just waiting to take a little nibble out of a runner.
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