More importantly is the onset of winter. The piccie above shows what's happening up at Sunshine today. They got about 45cm last night and all looks good for the hill to be opening on November 10th!!!!! Sod trick or treaters, I've a board to wax!
Happy Halloween,
S&S.
I've no real winter shots to post, but imagine the next seven months will be nothing but photos incorporating snow, so here's the last summer photo for this year from a hike up in Kananaskis a few weeks back.
Looking forward to waxing the skis and board, and may well go and try to have a slide around this weekend. The bike is looking at rollers for the next few days (bloody daylight saving and icey roads have scuppered after work riding now).
Work is still work and we're clinging onto reality by the skin of our teeth (I'm sure working in an LD school rubs off on you).
Trusting that all is well across the globe (in both directions),
Happy camping,
S&S.
It's been snowing in Cochrane most mornings this week (making the drive to work rather fun), but it has all melted from the town. Out in those hills however it's all pretty white and setting itself up for ski time! (for those out of the loop, the random photo above is taken from our balcony). Tis also rather chilly, and riding out nowadays involves several windproof and thermal layers beneath the lycra.
There is scant news other than weather and work (life seems to be rather steady for once), I'm just cycling lots and Brina is the Yoga Queen. Anybody who has missed todays footie results will be delighted to hear Utd have just thumped the Scousers 2-0!!!!!! (the day just got better).
We headed out into Calgary the other week to see Cirque du Soleil. We'd seen them in Vegas and they were awesome. In Calgary they were great, but we saw them in a hockey arena, and we were in the Gods (they call those seat the 'nosebleeds' over here), so should have taken the binoculars to distinguish between people and props!
The sun's just rising as I speak so it's off to layer up before nipping out on the bike for an hour or two - then back to the never ending marking....
Ho hum.
Keeping the glass half full,
S&S.
p.s. I know there are two already, but here's the sunset shot from home which I had been looking for last time I posted such a piccie.
I also give thanks for Nutella!!!
Take care.
So prior to washing down the Thanksgiving Turkey with a glass of red (not vimto) a day up Mt Indefatigable was on the cards. Blissfully aware of the snow, yet blissfully unaware of the cold (yeah I know snow is cold, but this was super chilly at the top) we marched up to the South summit of Indefatigable then scrambled over the super ridge to the north summit and made a tretcherous decent down an ice and snow laden buttress. Despite the holiday weekend, the entire Kananaskis valley was deserted, and we had blue sky too (well, on one side of the mountain we did anyway, the other side looked a bit like the next photo).
A trundle down through the meadow at the bottom (hoping to catch a glimpse of the resident Grizzly, whose diggings for roots were evident all over the place), and it was back home in time for tea.
Luckily for us, the Canucks enjoy Thanksgiving so much we get Monday off work, so it was off to Banff with the bikes. A couple of hours down the Bow Valley Parkway, spinning the new love of my life (new bike, for those unsure of my allegiance) to Castle Junction, then back to Banff to meet up with Brina who'd been merrily shopping the day away with Julie. Now it's the end of the long weekend and I'm back to fretting about legalities of employment and writing school reports. Ho hum, nearly the weekend again I suppose, and it's nearly time to be waxing those skis.
Well, seeing as though this is the third Thanksgiving I've had in North America I should be getting used to it, but in all honest ignorance, I still don't really get it and would prefer a bit of a Guy Fawkes theme with fireworks, bonfires and the usual abstract terror that comes with setting every garden in England on fire at the same time (I think I'll suggest that for next years Thanksgiving, rockets, Katherine wheels and burning pretend people on the fire).
Well I give thanks for the day off work, the beautiful scenery, snow, and most of you lot.
Happy Thanksgiving to you all,
S&S.
Well, here are a few ditties from the weekends when the computer had died and there was no blogging to be had. One of the last days of summer was up on Heart Mt, about 40mins from home. It's a super hike just off the highway, but the main route up is rather busy due to this. Fortunately very few people can be arsed to do the full ridge walk loop (don't know why as it is beautiful) so we had the mountain all to ourselves in the afternoon.
Then, in accordance with the previous post, this was last weekend's plan B. Having been shunned from the bus to take us to lake O Hara, they said it was full up but I think they took a real dislike to my shorts, we opted to hike Sentinal Pass (see last post, where also I kept on typing Sentinal wrong - Sentnial). This is the fall view of the valley of the ten peaks, you can just catch the yellow larches mid left.
This is on the decent from the pass, prior to having to hook up with another group to aviod the gun toting Rangers. It looks like this should simply be called 'drunken hiker in trees'.
And, on a very hazy evening (big forest fires in Montana and Washington really affected air quality for a week or two over summer), the sun sets on another blog posting.
Hope you are all fine and dandy,
S&S.
