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There was aybe it was the thin air, or just the on what has ever since been billed as some reluctance on the Ministry’s part to Manticipation of a national record- the world’s longest free ferry ride and commit to tunneling. setting feat of engineering. For whatever returning via the Skyway (or vice versa). reason, the opening of Canada’s highest “After the first winter there was a realignment survey put in on the (north- all-season commercial highway 50 years It opened up some of the region’s most facing) side of the valley on the east ago inspired some giddy thoughts. accessible backcountry terrain for skiing, snowshoeing, hiking and snowmobiling. side of the pass. There is a logging road The body of water in what would there.” become Stagleap Provincial Park was In more recent years the highway has That option was revisited in 1992 after a called Summit Lake, until it came time undoubtedly drawn attention to the car was struck by a slide, but “it proved for the Salmo-Creston Highway to open plight of an isolated herd of endangered to be very expensive,” he says. “One of in 1963. mountain caribou, which the occasional lucky motorist can observe. the proposals was a five-star gravel road “It was renamed Bridal Lake as part that would only be used in the winter of this ‘marriage’ of East and West Not bad for one 82-kilometre stretch of blacktop, even if it was built on the kind of thing. It didn’t get a whole lot of (Kootenays),” says Creston Museum air time.” manager Tammy Hardwick, who wrong side of the draw. Alas, despite what Hardwick describes as A snowshed in the North Fork avalanche researched Kootenay Pass history for a zone, to the east of the summit, was also special exhibit commemorating the road’s “a lot of enthusiasm and a lot of hype” over the highway at the time it opened, deemed too costly at $60,000 per linear anniversary this month. “There was talk metre, per lane. of having two weddings at the top. One “it wasn’t long before we start to have the couple from Creston, one couple from tragedies. You know, the avalanches, the “We have 1.6 kilometres of avalanche Salmo, would get married up at the top cars going off, the winter maintenance area (and) three lanes of highway,” and they would each name their first- problems. People were killed up there. Tweedy says. “Do the math. It comes out to a really large number. born child ‘Kootenay.’ “By the late 1960s there are a lot of letters “And that never happened.” to the editor (saying), ‘This should not “The emerging avalanche control technologies were starting to get more Then there was the tale of a runaway be a year-round highway. It is far too dangerous.’ ” consideration that this might be a better lane, upon which a chicken farmer whose way to go.” brakes failed saved his life but ditched his Longtime Kootenay Pass avalanche load. technician John Tweedy, who retired The cover story in this month’s I Love from the Transportation Ministry in Creston magazine relates how avalanche “There were chickens everywhere,” control evolved and much more about Hardwick relates, “and a year later there 2010, says, “The highway alignment was looked at very critically. ‘How could we the highway that knocked a couple of were some really weird-looking grouse hours off the trip between Creston and running around there.” best avoid the problem as opposed to buying into it?’ Salmo – except during the worst of Yes, what Kootenay residents in the winter conditions, when it’s nice that 1960s and ’70s knew as the Skyway “One of the stories I heard was that one the Kootenay Lake ferries remain as a transformed the regional transportation of the reasons the highway is on that side backup. of the valley, south-facing all the way, (is landscape forever, no portion perhaps “They definitely do the job they were more so than the East Shore, whose because it) has more sun time. Therefore, you might have warmer temperatures intended for,” says veteran highways Kootenay Lake ferry system immediately worker Brian Wert, referring to the became the alternate, rather than that would assist in melting compact conditions.” avalanche technology, “but sometimes only, route connecting East and West Mother Nature has that ace up her for truckers, motorists and even the Unfortunately, that same factor elevates sleeve. Greyhound bus. the avalanche risk, which in hindsight “Mother Nature, she can be wicked.” Hardwick found evidence of “the same is a strong argument for building the Hopefully no unpleasant environmental arguments (against the Skyway) that highway on the opposite, north-facing surprises will be in store Oct. 6, when we see with the bypass around Creston side. an auto cavalcade to the top is planned. today. ‘If the bypass goes around Creston, “Was there a recognition of the avalanche Speeches are set for 1 p.m. and a ribbon- Creston’s going to die.’ ” risk?” Tweedy says. “I don’t know. cutting at 1:30. The museum exhibit will Except the East Shore didn’t. Tolls on “I know there was consideration to be on display and avalanche techs are the ferry (and the West Arm bridge go one valley to the north, where the having an open house as well. 

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Frank Rotter (Salmo), Jack Wigen (Creston), and Al Hunter (Cranbrook) leading the way across the flats at the end of the 1952 trek. The road travelledmore “Salmo-Creston opening t’s been known by many names: the Cutoff; the in 1963 revolutionized ISkyway; the Salmo-Creston Highway. Kootenay transportation” Retired avalanche technician John Tweedy, who knows the stretch of asphalt as well as anyone, respectfully calls it “a bad piece of road.” www.ilovecreston.com October 2013 5 feature

Practicalities and economics prevented the idea from gaining traction until mid-century. “The roads went where the people went,” Hardwick says. “Early in the pioneer years – late 1800s, early 1900s – they are following the rivers because that’s where the trains went, that’s where the boats went and that’s where they could get to easily. “North-south travel is much easier than east-west.” Talk of a Salmo-Creston connection apparently surfaced in the 1940s but only got serious in the aftermath of the Second World War. Summit Creek Logging 1961. “You’ve got the whole post-war boom, the increased prosperity of people,” By whatever moniker, what’s Hope in the Fraser Valley with the Hardwick says. “Government has officially dubbed the Kootenay goldfields of Wild Horse Creek near more money to spend on hospitals Pass marks its 50th anniversary this Fort Steele. and roads and schools. month as the highest all-season “A lot of where the highway goes “By 1952 there is a recognized need. commercial road in Canada. The now follows the Dewdney Trail,” Trucks have replaced trains, largely, Creston Museum is celebrating the Hardwick says. “Parts of that same for transporting goods. Everybody milestone with a re-creation of the Summit Creek access were used by has their cars, and of course the cars 1963 opening ceremony on the packers (and) miners. Ed Jordan of are getting more powerful. Everybody summit Oct. 6 (1 p.m.). Jordan’s Cabin, for example, used the was taking car vacations. It was the Museum manager Tammy route for years (in the 1920s and ’30s) new thing to do.” Hardwick dug through local as he was packing into the Bayonne That year marked the first of the newspaper archives, interviewed Mine and escorting hunters and “the treks” by chamber of commerce old-timers and consulted colleagues fishermen. authorities like Creston’s Jack Wigen in the West Kootenay to prepare a “People accessed the pass from the and Salmo’s Frank Rotter, who began special travelling exhibit about the highway. west, as well. Pete the Packer, who holding literal summit meetings at the first built Jordan’s Cabin, was a meat top of the pass to conduct business “What’s interesting is how long packer and trader from Salmo. There’s and promote the route. people were looking at using that this long tradition of going from route and how long it took to “This is within a context of road- Creston to Salmo, or the other way, building throughout the province,” actually get a highway over it,” over the mountain.” Hardwick says. “Going back to Hardwick notes. “The Trans-Canada, 1826 there was a Hudson’s Bay The first recorded reference to Hope-Princeton, Blueberry Paulson trail put through there, and even building an actual road that and Salmo-Creston – all these routes before that the Ktunaxa were Hardwick found dates back to 1912, are certainly, if not being built, being using Summit Creek as a route for about the time the first automobiles looked at and prioritized. By the late hunting and fishing.” began showing up in Kootenay ’50s and early ’60s, man, there was a communities. lot of squabbling about which would The Palliser Expedition traversed be built first.” the pass in 1859 while scouting “There is some guy from the locations for the Canadian Pacific provincial government trekking over The provincial government approved Railway, and Edgar Dewdney those mountains and saying, ‘We the highway in 1954 and let the first incorporated it into the colonial trail should build a highway here,’ ” she of many small building contracts in he built in the 1860s, linking Fort says. 1956, thus beginning the process of

6 October 2013 www.ilovecreston.com feature piecing together – from both sides “Apparently the little boy was asleep improvement inspired by a close call concurrently – existing wagon roads, or unconscious when he got thrown the winter before. logging roads and packer trails along out of the car, so he wasn’t moving,” “You have to have either a tragedy or with some fresh-cut sections, 82 Hardwick says. “The snow kind of a near miss to get the ball rolling on kilometres in all. encased him in a bubble but left a change,” Tweedy says. “In December It was not without controversy, breathing pocket. They found him of 1992, Dec. 22, we had done particularly on the Creston side, but figured there was no hope. He was avalanche control all day with the where the East Shore business seriously suffering from hypothermia. launchers and we knew we were in community feared the loss of traffic “But they took him to the hospital in trouble. A big storm was forecast and reliant on Kootenay Lake ferries. Trail, along with his aunt, and the next we didn’t think we were going to get The “apprehension turned out to day he was up eating ice cream, raring too far into the evening before we be justified,” Hardwick says. “Their to go.” would have to close the highway. tourist traffic plummeted immediately That same winter the province “Sure enough a natural avalanche following the Salmo-Creston installed five compressed-gas launchers occurred while the highway was opening.” in green gun towers capable of firing open and a car was hit on the side. A final construction push in 1961- one-kilogram projectiles at strategic It basically got bumped up onto the 62 left most of the public eager for sites above the highway, triggering snowbank. There were a couple of the drawn-out project to be finished. slides during planned closures. There cuts and scrapes (to the occupants) Excitement ran high for the ribbon- hasn’t been an avalanche-related death but nothing life-threatening. cutting Oct. 13, 1963, when an since. “That was a wake-up call for the inaugural cavalcade of 2,700 vehicles Fashioned after a baseball pitching Ministry that we need to come up was allowed to pass despite a stretch at machine by an avalanche-control with a better way of doing avalanche the top not yet being paved. Another pioneer in Nevada, “the original control. The rifles arrived that next opening ceremony was staged in launcher was on the back of a pickup summer.” August 1964 when the highway was truck,” Tweedy says. “They moved The launchers’ low muzzle velocity completed. it around and fired at the mountain compromised their accuracy as Winters proved less celebratory. when they needed to do avalanche high crosswinds could easily blow “It snows a lot up there,” understates control.” the projectiles off course, and they Tweedy, who worked in avalanche The launchers were phased out in couldn’t be fired at night. control on the 1,775-metre pass for 1993 with the introduction of 105- In contrast, the military-grade rifles, 30 years, until 2010. millimetre recoilless rifles, a 10-factor with a range of eight kilometres, He credits climate change with slightly lower snowpacks today but back in the ’80s it wasn’t uncommon to find four metres on the ground in April, with upwards of 12 falling in a season. August is the only month without a recorded dusting. In half a century, avalanche control on the pass progressed from non- existent to state-of-the-art. During the highway’s first era, through 1976, seven slide-related fatalities made it notorious for more than its elevation. Three died in the last incident, in January 1976, which made international headlines for its miraculous survivors, a woman and child. Summit Creek Logging 1961. www.ilovecreston.com October 2013 7 feature

somewhere around $50,000 an hour for every hour the highway is closed over two.” Whereas highway maintenance was initially reactive, responding to slides as they fell, today’s proactive approach embraces all that science can offer in the battle against extreme elements. “It all comes down to avalanche forecasting, right?” he says, referring to the two year-round technicians and one seasonal employee who monitor conditions from the control centre at the summit using computerized data as well as snowshoes, skis and helicopters. “You still have to understand the Constructing Summit 1963. snow. You still have to recognize what your tipping point’s going to were far more reliable and cut in half the rifles as quickly as possible,” be, before you get yourself into a the former eight-hour window for Tweedy says. “The Ministry made a situation where maybe you should triggering and clearing slides. commitment to putting Gaz-ex in have done some avalanche control throughout the pass in 1997.” Even at that, the rifles were earlier or closed the highway.” considered an “interim measure,” Nine exploders were added to North Technology isn’t the only thing that according to Tweedy, who also in Fork that year, and rifles in the so- has changed. called No Name zone were retired by ’93 oversaw the installation of the The maintenance camp was initially first three Gaz-ex exploders in the 2000 after six exploders were erected west of the summit. several kilometres below the west- North Fork avalanche zone east of side avalanche gate, although “it the summit. Developed for ski areas By the time the last Gaz-ex project didn’t take long for Ministry people in the French Alps, Gaz-ex employs wrapped up in 2012 “we had 23 to realize they needed to have a remotely detonated mixtures of exploders and six control shelters. facility at the top,” Tweedy says. oxygen and propane that blister All of the high-frequency avalanche paths within five kilometres on both Brian Wert remembers when high-risk slopes with concussive snowplow drivers had the option of shock waves through cannon- sides of the summit are covered,” Tweedy says, noting that fuse- living at the base camp, only going like steel tubes embedded in the home on days off. He was one of mountainside. lit hand charges are dropped by helicopter on other slopes as needed. them, having hired on with the old The pilot project proved so “We reduced highway closures by Department of Highways in 1971 as successful that Gaz-ex expansion nearly 60 per cent compared to the a 22-year-old. commenced in ’97, though not ’70s and ’80s. “When you were off shift you just without the prompting of another bunked up there,” recalls the current one of those “wake-up calls:” large “Here’s the difference,” he continues, “and this is the part that I absolutely road foreman for YRB, the third rocks found among the debris of love. The road still does close, yes, private road maintenance contractor a natural avalanche that occurred but certainly not nearly as frequently on the pass since privatization in unexpectedly were deemed to have as it used to, and most of the work is 1988. “It was like a big family. They been loosened by the impact of a being done in a two-hour delay.” had a cook and everything.” rifle shot. Time, in this case, is money. All the drivers were trained in snow “From a geotechnical point of view Tweedy pegs “the economic impact safety and equipped with emergency we needed to step away from using to commercial trucking alone (at) beacons. They shunned air horns so 8 October 2013 www.ilovecreston.com feature as not to inadvertently trigger a slide. crushed the back of the seat. He was highway here. When we go through “We all knew the risk,” says Wert, like a wiener in a bun. the newspapers we can see all of who witnessed such anomalies as six- “I walked the slide a little bit to see the things that have been done wheel-drive and jet-powered plow if I could see anything. Of course to keep people safe and maintain trucks back in the day. “I found it it was at night, wind howling, ugly the highway. But it never fails; if sort of adventurous. as could be. I was coming back to it’s closed because an avalanche has come down, people are always “At times the hazard was so high my truck and I seen a light flash they’d tell you, ‘Wear your parkas down over the bank. He was in there griping and complaining about that and all your winter gear, gloves, in kicking and thrashing and he kicked and, yeah, it is an inconvenience. case you do get hit, so you won’t the brake pedal. There was one “But really, have you seen what went freeze to death while you’re sitting taillight showing out of the snow on into building that highway? Do you there waiting for help. the white truck. realize it is the highest all-weather “I’ve had some close calls. I’ve been “I dug him out with my hard hat.” pass in Canada? There’s an awful lot hit with them (but) I’ve never been The live-in camp closed within a of effort behind the fact that we can buried.” couple of years of privatization as just pop over there nine (times) out of 10 any day of the year and be in Wert did have to dig out his boss a cost-cutting measure, and with it Trail in an hour-and-a-half. one night when “the whole east went the camaraderie Wert misses. side of the summit slid out. He was Though now based in town, he still “Next time you drive over it, blown off the road right down to works a loader on the pass when remember all of the people who the bottom of the valley, just about. necessary. helped make it possible for you He fell over sideways in his seat and “What amazes me now,” Hardwick to drive over that highway. We’re the back of the seat came over top of concludes, “(is that) people seem talking 200-and-some odd years of him. 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Many - Ongoing housing renovations. Some LKB a team as best we can. times we as First Nations can be our members finish paying their mortgages and Some community members embrace the own worst enemies. Dealing with lateral now own their homes. direction we are heading while others despise violence is an ongoing process that requires - The 21st annual Yaqan Nukiy Pow Wow. it. Regardless, there is a job that needs to be commitment to change our personal - LKB participates in National Addictions done and, as I am granted a new day, there behaviours. is no alternative but to soldier on and do our Awareness Week. - Fetal alcohol syndrome workshop. - LKB participates in Relay for Life. Chief best. Education was provided to both men and The following is a timeline of what we Louie is arrested by Relay for Life “police” women about the dangers of consuming and bailed out for $200 in five minutes. achieved as a team, not what I achieved. alcohol during pregnancy. - LKB receives part-time nurse practitioner. There are times when I must lead and there - Budgeting workshop. Community are times I must follow. The mark of a true members received information and strategies - LKB hosts salmon feast at Canada Day leader is the ability to adapt to multiple roles. on how to effectively manage their incomes. celebration. 2011 - Ktunaxa language classes begin. - LKB begins dialogue with bio-coal company Diacarbon Energy. - Chief Jason Louie and council are elected. - Economic development grants totalling - March: after more than a decade, the Lower $23,000 awarded to LKB members to begin - LKB begins dialogue with Columbia Kootenay Band begins to host bimonthly their small businesses. Power. community meetings to update members - LKB initiates the Work Force Crew. This - LKB continues to work with Fortis BC. about administration programs and group of men and women became trained in - After decades of an inadequate water operations. carpentry to renovate homes and buildings system, LKB begins a $1.5-million water - Much-needed housing renovations begin, in the community. By training our members project, bringing a state-of-the-art system to employing community members to revitalize we saved more than $10,000. the reserve. the housing conditions. - LKB hosts the Ktunaxa Nation annual - LKB continues to improve its working - Chief and council retreat to strategize general assembly. relationship with Ktunaxa/Kinbasket Child where we want to lead our community and - LKB hosts the Kootenai Falls ceremony. and Family Services. begin personal healing to become more - Annual community cleanup. - Band-operated elementary school effective leaders. begins a partnership with the Bountiful - Renovations begin on the LKB - LKB hires a registered nurse. community. Students from Bountiful administration building. - LKB youth construct a sturgeon-nosed attend Yaqan Nukiy School, as do students - Changes are implemented to the Social canoe and present it to the Creston Valley from the Creston Valley. There are no Assistance Program. Recipients are Hospital. The canoe is a symbol of life and ethnic categories, just children gaining an required to complete volunteer hours and a represents an ongoing commitment to education. declaration of actively seeking employment. improving our working relationship. As you can see, both the leadership and - Economic development grants totalling - LKB, RCMP, Regional District of Central staff have been working tirelessly for their $11,000 are awarded to LKB members to Kootenay and Town of Creston continue community. As I mentioned, these are not begin their own business ventures. to work together effectively but, most my accomplishments but the team’s. importantly, in a respectful manner. - Four LKB members graduate from high The LKB team has been extremely school. - LKB challenges the town to donate non- supportive of me and I thank them for their perishable food to the local food bank. LKB - Harvest Share Program begins at Lower dedication and even friendship. wins the challenge, bringing in two truck Figuratively speaking, if we cannot run Kootenay. loads of food. - Job Search Program begins. we will walk and if we cannot walk we - Chief Louie receives the Queen’s Diamond will crawl, but never will a fallen team/ - Cooking club for youth begins. Jubilee Medal. community member be left behind. Taxa.  - Knitting group is started. 2013 Jason Louie can be reached by phone at 428- 4428, ext. 235, e-mail at [email protected] 2012 - LKB council inauguration ceremony for or on the Web at www.lowerkootenay.com. www.ilovecreston.com October 2013 11 health The flu, also called influenza, is a much Pharmacist Corner more serious, acute viral infection Article submitted by: Srinivas Chalagalla B.pharm., Ph.D. affecting the whole body. Usual symptoms include fever, shivering, generalized weakness, muscle pain or Cold or flu? soreness as well as headaches. Once the flu is resolved, fatigue, chest You make the call pain and cough often persist for a few ost people do not know the the infection progresses, pulmonary weeks. Complications may include Mdifference between the common secretions may become more present bronchitis or pneumonia. cold and the flu. This is probably due and a dry cough can turn into a Can cold environments cause a cold or to the fact that both infections affect productive one, albeit not more the flu? Yes and no. the respiratory tract and cause similar serious. symptoms. Although it is true there are more cases Bed rest, whenever possible, is of cold and flu infections during colder Even though it may sometimes be recommended for anyone suffering months, temperature itself cannot bear bothersome, the common cold is from a cold. The patient should also the whole blame. The beginning of a benign medical problem causing drink plenty of liquids and increase the school year facilitates the spread of symptoms such as runny nose, room humidity as needed, to relieve the viruses and young children are often sneezing, sore throat and cough. As symptoms. more susceptible to them. Cold weather makes us spend more time indoors in closer contact with possibly infected persons. But we still do not know why some people have several episodes a year while others don’t have any. Are there effective ways of preventing colds and the flu? Basic hygiene combined with a few specific precautions can be helpful. Infected people can spread the virus into the air when they talk, sneeze or cough. You can catch it by putting your hand to your nose after shaking hands with an infected person or by using the person’s phone. Thus, people with a cold or the flu should wash their hands frequently and avoid sharing personal objects. 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