Alberta Bound
Greetings, all. Many thanks for being such fun in the comments while I was away, not deserting me for the competition (the non-vacationing ones). We got back this afternoon and had really a lovely time. If anyone’s interested, I’ll put up some pictures of some of our adventures (or at least their dramatic locations) but in the meantime I wanted to put up at least one photo, this one looking down on Peyto Lake from Bow Summit on the Icefields Parkway in Banff National Park last Monday the seventeenth:
And I did want to put up just one, but I also really need to show how deep the snow was up there:
April 24th, 2006 at 1:11 am
Hmmm. Not sure that traffic signs work all that well at knee height.
April 24th, 2006 at 1:30 am
Hi Brett My copy of “Wisden” just turned up in the post! Great section on what ninme at the time called, with characteristic accuracy, “A Great Disturbance in The Force”. So if I don’t comment so much, you’ll know what I’m reading about.
April 24th, 2006 at 5:25 am
Wow!
April 24th, 2006 at 7:25 am
The parking was actually about ankle height. The interpretive signs along the trail were all cut off at the end. “The tree line is lower on southern” etc. Made for an interesting interpretive experience.
April 24th, 2006 at 7:38 am
As it would! But it’s certainly very spectacular, and, well, a bit stunning. How high are the mountains? Oh, and it’s great to have you back in charge!!!
April 24th, 2006 at 9:29 am
Ehm, well, “At 6,787 feet, Bow Summit is the highest drivable pass in the national parks of the Canadian Rockies.” And uh, there was a sign pointing at one of the mountains we took a picture of (ninme consults… ) Observation Peak, 10,214 feet. But that was the mountain sort of across the road from where we were, which I assume would be rather taller than the ones in that picture, which looks north, I should add. But you get the general idea.
April 24th, 2006 at 9:36 am
So at least twice the height of what we call mountains here in Scotland, and a good deal rockier to look at. Beautiful in a romantic sort of way, though I’m more of a classical fan myself. Brrrrr!!!! Hope you had hot flasks packed. Kendal mint cake. Extra petrol.
April 24th, 2006 at 10:25 am
Poor little Ben Nevis…
Well, it was actually quite warm. Up there, it was freezing in the shade, but the sun was So. Freaking. Hot. I had a big puffy jacket that I had to lug around, then my scarf that I had to lug around. If I had any more room I’d have been lugging around my sweater as well. The hotel we stayed in that night had some red adirondack chairs out front that I was sitting on before a cloud passed over and I swear you could sit there in a swim suit and still be too warm. I started to go a bit puce, as well, which was rather alarming, but it didn’t turn into a true burn.
April 24th, 2006 at 8:57 pm
Welcome back! We missed you…
April 24th, 2006 at 10:34 pm
Awww!