Sunday morning dawned with a promise of some sun, so we decided it was time to head west, towards New Denver. This was the highway that was closed for over a week last month with many massive avalanches and we wanted to see what that looked like. Also, we wanted to do some snowshoeing somewhere new, also higher up is usually sunnier.....so off we went.
Sandon has a history going back to the late 1800s - it was a vibrant mining "city", also the location of a relocation camp during WWII. It's almost a ghose town now although there are still a few mines in the area and a few people do still live there. It also has the oldest continuously operating hydro electric generating station in western Canada, at least I think that's what I read. While waiting for Catherine to finish her snowshoe, I went to look around. One of the station operators happened to be going by so I had a chance to have a look inside. Yup - still humming away.
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