It joined the North Thompson River back in Kamloops, and together they formed the mighty Thompson River.

There are no signs for it. But alongside the river just ahead is the tiny Monte Creek Provincial Park.

The Prichard Bridge crossing the river just ahead makes for a really nice photo, especially at sunsets. It's one of the very last reminders of the days when paddle wheelers were the main mode of transport before our convenient highways and roads.

You'll see some really good signs after we cross the bridge. It's straight ahead to the viewing platform.

The lake was named after the Shuswap Indians, an Interior Salish tribe who sometimes crossed the mountains to hunt buffalo on the prairies.

It's not a place that we need to go visit on this trip, but if you want to know, it's an important area for the preservation of habitat for fish and bird life. It was created in 1956 and covers 60 hectares of beautiful forested upland with all the lumber mills alongside the Trans-Canada highway.

This one is the Crazy Creek Suspension Bridge. The bridge straddles over a creek that absolutely roars with snowmelt runoff through the spring and early summer especially.

The Enchanted Forest is actually a very popular stop of interest, especially if you have small children. The Enchanted Forest was the retirement project of Doris Needham and her husband.

Logging is once again visible here, and a number of cedar mills are located along the highway.

This is a hotel with restaurant services and a historical museum housing several interesting exhibits. Gordon Bell was the man responsible for this development as a child of the Great Depression.

Walter Moberly, a government surveyor, was the first documented European in this area in 1865.

Glacier National Park enjoys numerous roaring waterfalls, raging rivers, and soaring peaks. Many of the mountains are over 3050m high or 10,000ft.

The most notable man-made place in Glacier National Park is the buildings and services at the top of this climb at Rogers Pass.

This is Kinbasket Lake. There's also a big sign for entry to the Kinbasket Lake Resort campground. It's not a place that I'm going to say we'll need to stop, but I should point it out.

If we feel like we might like to spend an hour or so to take a relatively easy flat walk to one of the Rockies prettier waterfalls, then this could be a great stop for us to make in the summer.

Two huge mountains rise up above us here in the valley, and it's practically impossible for us to see both of them from here in the car, unless we're driving in a convertible with the top down. Both mountains are quite important, but for totally different reasons.

Be careful of traffic turning in and out of the car park. This is actually the most stopped at the viewpoint on the entire length of the Trans-Canada highway.

This pretty lake or large pond we're about to pass is called Wapta Lake. It's considered the source of the Kicking Horse River.