Day 1: Grand Forks to Eholt Station

We drove to Christina Lake at Skands Campground on Sept. 20. We set up our tent and played a few games of Swoop then went to bed early. We woke up to some clouds and decided to switch the order of our rides. We drove to a parking lot at the base of the Columbia Western Trailhead and hiked our bikes up a steep road a km and a half to get onto the trail. Once on it, we had a steady climb past an old bunkhouse and through two tunnels. They were pitch black, and we used our bike lights to see our way through. We had lunch on the side of the trail and rode to the Eholt Station. This was a hub of trains in its hayday! We rode back to the bunkhouse for a snack break and really felt the nice downhill grade. Once back at the car, the skies opened up and it poured while we loaded the bikes onto the car. We rode 40 km today. We enjoyed some borscht in Grand Forks, then drove back to camp for the night, and the rain subsided to reveal a beautiful evening. Jacob fished off the dock at the lake, and I tried some casts, but no luck. We watched a show in the distance with dry lightning lighting up the clouds over the mountains. Nature's beauty is so spectacular. We finished the evening with a card game of Harry Potter Monopoly.Read more