In and around Golden

A few more pictures from in and around Golden to finish off this novel about our holiday.
We spent some time one nice afternoon to walk along the river bank of the Kicking Horse River and drive thru the town to see some of the landmarks.  The kids could have spent hours upon hours here throwing stones and changing water paths. The flow was still quite fast even though it was fall, and it was really nice that the water level was low.

Golden was built on the rail and became popular in the 1900s when it hired Swiss guides to help tackle the mountaineering. Several men moved in with their wives and to make them feel more at home the CPR built them homes in the sides of the mountain to resemble their Swiss mountain houses.   They are now empty and rundown but Andy humored me in my desire to find and look at these deserted houses which have so much history and are still a famous landmark of Golden.  

Time to go home!  The only road to the resort was over this one car wide bridge with wooden deck.  Considering the safety consious society and such that we live in today it was quite surprising that they hadn't updated this bridge and made it bigger and more usable, but it was quite fun to drive over time and time again.

Our constant ray of sunshine :)