I got my rental truck today. It's frikkin' gigantic! And I can kiss my eco-credentials goodbye too. 5.7 litres - oh God! Still I think it'll be an interesting experience and it's got me as far as Invermere, BC without calamity



I drove out here through the part of the Rockies I know the least well: Kootenay National Park. I've been this way once before, with Lucy, when we went to Radium Hot Springs. It was a beautiful drive and really snowy but it was cloudy and I still haven't really seen it properly. I must come back in the summer and see what it's like. But I did see a wolf! He was struggling through a snowdrift as I came round a corner and I watched him cross the road in my rear view mirror. What he was doing in my rear view mirror I'll never know.

Right now it's -11 and snowing gently. Sweet!