The day started with and investigation to see why our motor home is leaking antifreeze. I could find no leaking hose and it appears it may be a leak in the radiator core. We will go on and keep an eye on the coolant and hopefully get home by just adding water when necessary so it can be repaired at home. We then traveled about two hundred twenty miles today to camp in the Lucerne Campground a few miles into Mount Robson Provincial Park. The scenery was again wooded rolling hills with a lot of farm and ranch fields and livestock in the vicinity of the town of McBride. Then at the junction with highway #5 the scenery changed rather quickly to rugged mountain, lake and river scenery on into camp. Our first stop today was at The Ancient Forest about sixty miles east of Prince George. This is a relatively small and rare inland tropical rain forest with all the micro climate and vegetation associated with such a forest. It was in fact raining on us off and on all during our hour and a half hike. There was a pretty waterfall, amazing vegetation, moss and lichens and a pleasant musky smell of wet cedar. But the most amazing of all were the huge cedar trees. Many were ten to twelve feet in diameter with the largest being sixteen feet in diameter and thought to be up to two thousand years old. We then traveled along the upper Fraser River which is a pretty turquoise color, saw the cloud shrouded peak of Mount Robson, at 12,972 feet the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies, and drove past Moose Lake. Now at the campground we have another beautiful lake with a rugged and picturesque mountain backdrop. We finished the day with a good old western flick of Gene’s and some planning for the next few days in Jasper and Banff National Parks.
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