The 100th Post!
Yea, that's right - 100 posts. How about that!
Let's start off with a moment of silence: the ski hills are now, officialy, closed. I didn't go up much at all in the last month; the warm weather really makes me disinterested in skiing. So I've finally packed up the ski gear and put it away for the season. But that's ok! Since I've brought out the climbing gear! Woot!
Bonnie and I made it out this past weekend to Cougar Canyon near Canmore. The rock was great, but the conditions could definitely have been better. The water in Cougar Creek was, as you'd expect, quite high, and the canyon itself was quite narrow and we had to ford it a couple times to get to any climbs at all (and the climbs we got too weren't that great). We would have loved to go in further to the wall we had initially planned on climbing, but couldn't stand the notion that we'd have to cross the raging torrent of ice-cold water more times.
In any case, it was great to get out and discover that I do, in fact, remember how to rock climb. Here's the obligatory pictures
Bonnie is holding my pants here. I took them off because I couldn't roll them up high enough to matter. By the time that we took this photo, Bonnie had given up with staying dry and was wearing her sneakers and not rolling up her pants
Finally at our climbing spot (or our substitute climbing spot), Bonnie wanted a picutre taken of how wet she is. She definitely fell in but your heroic author was there to save the day.
And speaking of your author, here he is ready to climb and looking uber.
In other news, I've now grilled a couple times this spring on our little patio thing and that's been great. Nothing better than grilling with a beer in hand. In downside news, the road is under contstruction again, including a giant hole right outside the internet cafe complete with constant machine-sounds and banging. Awesome....Can't believe it's going to stay under construction until our trip home.
Finally, the long weekend was crazy. You get lulled into this false sense of "Banff is a small quiet town" over the winter and then BAM it's full up and you can't walk down the sidewalk anymore. Just crazy. So glad i'm leaving for July
Let's start off with a moment of silence: the ski hills are now, officialy, closed. I didn't go up much at all in the last month; the warm weather really makes me disinterested in skiing. So I've finally packed up the ski gear and put it away for the season. But that's ok! Since I've brought out the climbing gear! Woot!
Bonnie and I made it out this past weekend to Cougar Canyon near Canmore. The rock was great, but the conditions could definitely have been better. The water in Cougar Creek was, as you'd expect, quite high, and the canyon itself was quite narrow and we had to ford it a couple times to get to any climbs at all (and the climbs we got too weren't that great). We would have loved to go in further to the wall we had initially planned on climbing, but couldn't stand the notion that we'd have to cross the raging torrent of ice-cold water more times.
In any case, it was great to get out and discover that I do, in fact, remember how to rock climb. Here's the obligatory pictures
Bonnie is holding my pants here. I took them off because I couldn't roll them up high enough to matter. By the time that we took this photo, Bonnie had given up with staying dry and was wearing her sneakers and not rolling up her pants
Finally at our climbing spot (or our substitute climbing spot), Bonnie wanted a picutre taken of how wet she is. She definitely fell in but your heroic author was there to save the day.
And speaking of your author, here he is ready to climb and looking uber.
In other news, I've now grilled a couple times this spring on our little patio thing and that's been great. Nothing better than grilling with a beer in hand. In downside news, the road is under contstruction again, including a giant hole right outside the internet cafe complete with constant machine-sounds and banging. Awesome....Can't believe it's going to stay under construction until our trip home.
Finally, the long weekend was crazy. You get lulled into this false sense of "Banff is a small quiet town" over the winter and then BAM it's full up and you can't walk down the sidewalk anymore. Just crazy. So glad i'm leaving for July
posted by Anonymous at 10:25 AM
2 Comments:
So good to hear again. Loved the pictures. The water looks cold! Thanks. Can't wait till July.
love
mom
i can't walk on the sidewalks here either. but that's mainly because that's where the cars park.
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