August 3-5, 2013 – Revelstoke, BC
We had quite a thunderstorm Friday night and Saturday morning with lots of thunder and lightning and rain. It was again foggy, cloudy and overcast Saturday morning so we let Mariah sleep in. After lunch we went to the Revelstoke Dam and took their self guided tour. The dam is 175 meters (574 ft) high and 457 meters (1,550 ft) long. The Revelstoke Dam is the most powerful of the three Canadian dams on the Columbia River, producing over 7,500 gigawatt hours of electricity every year – enough to power the equivalent of 800,000 homes. We rode an elevator from the Visitor Center to the dam crest lookout where we got a great view of the spillway. Our Jeep in the Visitor Center parking lot is the last vehicle on the right in the middle row with the orange kayaks on top. The Visitor Center had lots of displays about electricity, the history of the dam, and energy conservation. This was Mari...