{"id":21893,"date":"2012-08-01T10:05:25","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T14:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclemojo.com\/?p=21893"},"modified":"2020-04-07T11:14:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T15:14:35","slug":"kootenays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclemojo.com\/2012\/08\/kootenays\/","title":{"rendered":"West Kootenay Circle Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"
In a land of rivers, lakes and mountains, the Kootenays provide some of the best riding in British Columbia.<\/p>\n
The wind was certainly picking up as I headed west out of Cochrane, Alberta, but most of the menacing cloud formations looked like they were passing to the south of me. I was hoping for a sunny and dry run through to Revelstoke, British Columbia. The fastest route through to Canmore and the edge of the Rocky Mountains is the four-lane Trans-Canada Highway, but this morning I wasn\u2019t interested in flat, four-lane cruising, and more in two-lane, twisty and lightly travelled. I found it on the 1A highway that runs from Cochrane to Canmore across the Stoney Native Reservation, a narrow ribbon of fair-quality asphalt that jukes and jives its way along the Bow River all the way to Canmore. It\u2019s the type of road that was made for my \u201909 Concours with its new set of Pirelli sport-touring tires.<\/p>\n
Through Canmore, I headed for the east gates of Banff National Park with the goal of riding straight through to Revelstoke. The hopes of a dry trip quickly evaporated, as shortly past the turnoff to the Banff town site I encountered the first of many rainstorms that I was hoping to evade. The sun did appear as I was nearing the recently completed high-level bridge that takes the Trans-Canada Highway from one side of Kicking Horse Canyon to the other, just east of Golden.<\/p>\n