Day 2, Spray Lake to Mt Sarrail Campground

Day 2 (July 15) started off nice and ended kinda badly. The riding was pretty easy since we spent most of the day riding on a gravel highway that follows the east side of Spray Lake and Lower Kananaskis Lake.

Because Kaden is a bit faster than me and Dante I was letting him get up to a quarter mile or so ahead of us but had to tell him to hang back with us after he didn't recognize a sketchy situation. There was a car moving slowly, in a start/stop manner, down the other side of the road, in the wrong direction. When Dante and I passed it I saw that there was a bear at the edge of the woods on the other side of the car. I pulled out my bottle of bear spray before passing it, just in case. Thankfully it had no interest in us or in the car following it.

Pictures from the day follow.

Leaving Spray Lakes Campground:


Riding along Spray Lake and/or Lake Kananaskis:



A unknown name small lake we ate lunch at:



Just before Bolton campgrounds we encountered two more bears. A mother and cub were on a hill on the right side of the road. The driver of an old subaru wagon backed up rapidly toward us to inform us before we got there. We passed by on the shoulder of the opposite side of the road, behind a row of cars whose drivers had stopped to watch. 

Outside Bolton Campground store, where we ran into half a dozen other riders:


This was about when things took a turn for the worse. Kaden got a bit too cold in the mile or two before the store and had to put on a bunch of warmer items to stop some shivering. He was not having much fun for about 15 minutes there.

About 30 minutes later after we got into camp I threw up half a dozen times while setting up camp. It was probably either a funky tasting ice cream bar I had at the campground store, or the 2 or 3 drops of  water I had seen drip past my filter and into my hydration pack due to a somewhat loose connection when filtering water at the lake we had lunch at. Whatever the case, it led to about 36 hours of only being able to keep down small amounts of water at a time.


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