Keeping the Peace

I took the opportunity to drive Hwy 29 from Hudson’s Hope to Fort St. John to pick up the much anticipated missing parts.

It takes about 45 minutes to reach Fort St. John along the Peace River Valley. The Valley is east of the Rocky Mountains and Hudson’s Hope is in the foothills of the Rockies. These northern Rocky Mountains are old mountains; worn and rounded by millennia of rain and freeze thaw; not at all like the jagged peaks of the southern Rockies. Highway 29 follows the river as it winds through the Aspen forests of the foothills which are technically part of the Prairies. It’s a beautiful drive that may not be around much longer. I passed many signs posted by area residents protesting the flooding of the valley for the Site C extension of the WAC Bennett Dam. I stole the title of this post from one of the signs.

When I arrived at the Greyhound bus station in Fort St. John to pick up our missing parts, I found three of the four boxed had arrived, but not the one with the parts we desperately need to move forward.