Trail, BC - 2004

I visited Trail, BC in the summer of 2004. I was mesmerized by the Columbia River and the beauty of the Kootenay mountains. Trail, BC has a place in my heart that is never going to go away.

Coming into Trail from the East Kootenay pass, we saw a mountain sheep standing in the middle of the road. He just stood there and if you wanted to get by him, he wasn't going to move but you had to go around him.

I remember it was 40 degrees Celsius when we arrived in Trail. I can also remember being able to sit by the Columbia River at 10:00 pm at night and enjoying the evening because there was not a mosquito to be found. Coming from Ontario, Canada, mosquitoes always swarm you to death and make it miserable. However, this did not happen in Trail. No mosquitoes! It was heaven!

We camped at the Beaver Creek Campground. It is situated on the eastern shore of the Columbia River. This campground is clean and quiet and we pretty much had the whole campground to ourselves for the few days that we spent there.

The first day that we were camping, we saw a bald eagle fly right over our heads. That bald eagle was the very first wild bald eagle that I had ever seen in my life and it is burned into my memory forever.

I would recommend Trail, BC to anyone that wants to discover the Kootenay mountain range in British Columbia, Canada.

This article was written by Debbie Williamson, 2006.