The National Dream, Ep. 6: The Sea of Mountains | History Documentary

[@garygiles3991]

Despite the subdued quality of this segment of this documentary, it brings back memories. No, despite my advancing age, i am not over 140 years old. These real men travelled without the benefit of modern light-weight hiking equipment, compact stoves, GPS, and so on. I spent a considerable amount of time in Glacier National Park/Rogers Pass. Even in the summer this country is steep, wet, rough, full of deadfall and heavy brush, etc. Explored some of the routes Rogers travelled. One plant that made travel difficult is the Devil's Club. Can grow to over 7 feet. Maple like leaves, but stems covered in razor sharp spines. Nasty pieces of work. By the way, one of my colleagues in the Canadian Park Service was recruited to play one of the native indian guides in this series. Hilarious seeing him in a Parks Service truck in his costume.

[@mr51406]

The location shooting is amazing and magnificent. ⭐️ Though watching the guy playing Albert swimming out of that cold water, and he and the 2 First Nations extras sliding down in the snow, I’m sure they were thinking at moment: “I went to acting school for this?”😂

[@victoryproductions5152]

Very cool to see the KVR's Myra Canyon segment be used for the trestle scenes. It looks like the Othello Tunnels were used for most of the Fraser Canyon section of the film?