What Happened To Summer?
It's definitely over. Been able to see my breath for most of the day the last few days out here. Pretty crazy. Also regularly waking up to snow on the mountains. It usually melts (but lately has gotten a little more stubborn), but everytime there is new snow, it's a little farther down the mountain. It's well past the treeline now. I remember coming out here last year and a few of the firs tmornings Bob and I were here (first week of October) we woke up to snow on the ground. Crazy. Definitely coming.
In other news, ski season starts exactly 2 months from yesterday. Huzzah! Book your ski vacations now :D With Bonnie's new job we can put people up at the Banff Centre for not very much money, but you'll have to get the details from her.
Still living out of the hotel and the work continues to progress on the place. We should be back in shortly. The timing wasn't great (the day before Labour Day weekend) and the landlord is really making sure to do the job right, so it's taking a little longer to get finished. We're really looking forward to moving out of the hotel though - it's getting kind of old.
Dave and I went up Sulphur mountain the other day on the Gondola. I'd hiked the trail up the mountain last winter (the one where i was fortunate enough to find that artist on top to draw a picture of me) and I was pretty unimpressed with the hike itself. It constnatly crossed under the gondola line and was thickly treed the entire way. Just drudgery with no reward.
We had a different kind of plan though. WE took the gondola up and then walked along the ridge to the far end of the mountain (a few k on the ridge at least). Even though the top of the mountain is something of a tourist destination, they all tend to stay in teh actual tourist areas leaving us alone to scramble from peak to peak.
This was one of the better hikes/scrambles I've done. ALl reward, no drudgery, some fun trickier bits to climb and get over. The ridge was frequently quite thin and sharp, but also frequently treed with what looked a lot like the trees of the Bruce Penninsula. THe view was also pretty good the whole time, even though Sulphur Mountain is a pretty small mountain around here (barely above the treeline usually)
Was also pretty cold, and when on the windy side it was fairly rough in general. We even got caught in somethign of a snowstorm - pretty weak one, but snow none-the-less. It snowed fairly constantly while we were up there but usually not enough to really notice and it didn't stay long on the ground.
Definitely the highlight of the trip was on a break we took on one of the peaks. We were sitting there having some water and a couple mountain goats passed by within 10 feet and hung out for a while. Definitely cool. Seen a lot of them around town and on the roads and what not, but this was the definitely the closest I'd ever been, for the longest time, and not in a vehicle of some time. It was also the first time Dave had seen any at all (talk about bum luck)
Finally, a couple shots from the actual summit of the mountain. not bad!
These are actually taken along the ridge, so you can see what we were walking on the whole time. fun stuff!
(not as good as others, I know. too bad. wimpy mountain)
In other news, ski season starts exactly 2 months from yesterday. Huzzah! Book your ski vacations now :D With Bonnie's new job we can put people up at the Banff Centre for not very much money, but you'll have to get the details from her.
Still living out of the hotel and the work continues to progress on the place. We should be back in shortly. The timing wasn't great (the day before Labour Day weekend) and the landlord is really making sure to do the job right, so it's taking a little longer to get finished. We're really looking forward to moving out of the hotel though - it's getting kind of old.
Dave and I went up Sulphur mountain the other day on the Gondola. I'd hiked the trail up the mountain last winter (the one where i was fortunate enough to find that artist on top to draw a picture of me) and I was pretty unimpressed with the hike itself. It constnatly crossed under the gondola line and was thickly treed the entire way. Just drudgery with no reward.
We had a different kind of plan though. WE took the gondola up and then walked along the ridge to the far end of the mountain (a few k on the ridge at least). Even though the top of the mountain is something of a tourist destination, they all tend to stay in teh actual tourist areas leaving us alone to scramble from peak to peak.
This was one of the better hikes/scrambles I've done. ALl reward, no drudgery, some fun trickier bits to climb and get over. The ridge was frequently quite thin and sharp, but also frequently treed with what looked a lot like the trees of the Bruce Penninsula. THe view was also pretty good the whole time, even though Sulphur Mountain is a pretty small mountain around here (barely above the treeline usually)
Was also pretty cold, and when on the windy side it was fairly rough in general. We even got caught in somethign of a snowstorm - pretty weak one, but snow none-the-less. It snowed fairly constantly while we were up there but usually not enough to really notice and it didn't stay long on the ground.
Definitely the highlight of the trip was on a break we took on one of the peaks. We were sitting there having some water and a couple mountain goats passed by within 10 feet and hung out for a while. Definitely cool. Seen a lot of them around town and on the roads and what not, but this was the definitely the closest I'd ever been, for the longest time, and not in a vehicle of some time. It was also the first time Dave had seen any at all (talk about bum luck)
Finally, a couple shots from the actual summit of the mountain. not bad!
These are actually taken along the ridge, so you can see what we were walking on the whole time. fun stuff!
(not as good as others, I know. too bad. wimpy mountain)
posted by Anonymous at 1:05 PM
1 Comments:
ok, those mountains are eerie. So desolate at the top. Don't you think if there are mountain goats where you are, you might be tooooo high? Just a thought. Got pretty cold here too, but not snowy. Was hot and sunny when I left the cottage today and crummy and cold and dark/rainy when I got home. Drastic. Love the pictures. Thank you.
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