{"id":22276,"date":"2011-04-29T19:02:24","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T02:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=12054"},"modified":"2016-09-17T12:25:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T09:25:41","slug":"the-potato-chip-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/the-potato-chip-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Potato Chip Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jody and Gary needed to go to Fruitvale, BC, yesterday and insisted I come along for the ride. It was a fun little overnight trip and we obviously aren’t yet ready to kill each other since we’re road tripping again tomorrow!<\/p>\n

The title of this post comes from something Jody likes to do when she drives this route. It takes you to the Salmo Creston Pass, which is a full mile above sea level. The change in air pressure is remarkable and well evidenced by bringing a bag of potato chips, then watching it swell as you climb up to the summit. Potato chip delivery drivers are not allowed to take this route because the bags, being crowded into boxes, often explode!<\/p>\n

I would not want to do this route, highway 3, in an RV at any other time but a very dry summer day; not only is it a long, steep climb and descent, but there is no guard rail along a good chunk of it. There was a lot of snow at the pass yesterday.<\/p>\n

I got up at oh-dark-thirty to do two flier routes, with the other two to be done tonight. It figured that these were extra-large batches where I would be paid a supplement but which would take longer! We took off around 9 and with a bunch of stops made it to Fruitvale at five MST, four local time.<\/p>\n

We pushed on a little past Fruitvale so I could see the former mining town of Rossland, then we had dinner in Trail at the delicious Chinese ‘Double Happiness’ restaurant.<\/p>\n

On the way back today we stopped in Creston so I could see the sasquatch at the Kokanee brewery. Pity there were no tours today!<\/p>\n

We got in around, oh, nearly fiveish and Jody went out with me so we could do my fliers in record time. Thank you!<\/p>\n

\"random<\/a>

random MyCatsAreSoCute! pic<\/p><\/div>\n

\"snow<\/a>

snow at the summit of the Salmo Creston pass<\/p><\/div>\n

\"snow<\/a>

snow at the summit of the Salmo Creston pass<\/p><\/div>\n

\"crossing<\/a>

crossing the Columbia River into Trail (yes, the same river as that in Oregon\/Washington)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"welcome<\/a>

welcome to Trail<\/p><\/div>\n

\"daffodils<\/a>

daffodils in Trail<\/p><\/div>\n

\"public<\/a>

public walkways in Trail all have this red covering; you can see them going up the side of the hills<\/p><\/div>\n

\"welcome<\/a>

welcome to Rossland<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Rossland<\/a>

Rossland mine<\/p><\/div>\n

\"nice<\/a>

nice building in Rossland<\/p><\/div>\n

\"BC<\/a>

BC has bright green grass<\/p><\/div>\n

\"bag<\/a>

bag at the bottom of the pass on the Salmo side, very flexible, no problem creating the crease<\/p><\/div>\n

\"air<\/a>

air pressure is still low<\/p><\/div>\n

\"air<\/a>

air pressure is still low but changing as we climb up<\/p><\/div>\n

\"air<\/a>

air pressure keeps mounting<\/p><\/div>\n

\"nearly<\/a>

nearly at the top and the bag is getting very hard<\/p><\/div>\n

\"white-out<\/a>

white-out conditions at the summit<\/p><\/div>\n

\"cresting<\/a>

cresting the summit, the bag was fully inflated<\/p><\/div>\n

\"on<\/a>

on the Creston side of the pass<\/p><\/div>\n

\"on<\/a>

on the Creston side of the pass<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Creston,<\/a>

Creston, nice dump station<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Creston\"<\/a>

Creston<\/p><\/div>\n

\"fountain<\/a>

fountain at rest area in Creston<\/p><\/div>\n

\"IMGP1841\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\""Beer<\/a>

“Beer Run”, the Kokanee Sasquatch<\/p><\/div>\n

\"RV<\/a>

RV park right across from the Kokanee Brewery!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Cranbrook<\/a>

Cranbrook sign, similar to the one in Sparwood<\/p><\/div>\n

\"we<\/a>

we saw lots of these goats on the highway<\/p><\/div>\n

\"coming<\/a>

coming up to the short tunnel<\/p><\/div>\n

\"short<\/a>

short tunnel<\/p><\/div>\n

\"IMGP1849\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"election<\/a>

election sign: Vote for Bush! (as an independent)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jody and Gary needed to go to Fruitvale, BC, yesterday and insisted I come along for the ride. It was a fun little overnight trip and we obviously aren’t yet ready to kill each other since we’re road tripping again tomorrow! The title of this post comes from something Jody likes to do when she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1041,1442,632,1118,1119,1505,1172,1226,635,1325,5,1504,3,8],"tags":[790,1447,796,717,707],"class_list":["post-22276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alberta","category-britishcolumbia","category-canada","category-cranbrook","category-creston","category-creston-britishcolumbia","category-fruitvale","category-lethbridge","category-north-america","category-rossland","category-rving","category-trail","category-travel","category-work","tag-breweriesdistilleries","tag-cats-in-an-rv","tag-city-tours","tag-experiences","tag-statuesmonuments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}