Pictures Ahoy!
Lots of pictures this time around. I looked at my camera this afternoon and realized that I had quite the backlog on that thing.
What's the brief skinny? Things are going on as usual out here. We had our May snows, our week straight of May rains (yep, 7 days straight), and now it's nice again. Work is the same and the town is much the same except that it's getting busier by the day.
Banff Refreshing, the redo of main street that began last spring, is back in business. They've got 2 of the 3 main intersections all but closed off, making driving downtown a total hassle and apparently the weather delayed the construction for 3 full weeks, making the new completion date just a few days before I get back from out East. That makes it about 9 months late overall! Well done!
First up on the pictures are some of the snow we got virtually overnight about 10 days back in mid May. Ah the May snows. These are both of our stairs and walk going down to our door.
Naturally, I couldn't not go skiing with all the fresh snow, so I went out. I got there late, much to my chargin, but was extremely pleasantly surprised that even at noon it was still impossible to NOT ski in powder that was a foot deep or more. NOthing like a mid May powder day!! Huzzah!!! Anyway, while driving there I was talking to mom on the phone and took this photo. Those little guys love the salt on the road.
Next up, a brief diversion just to assure the folks at home that we are, in fact, eating well and right. I tutor a neighbor's son in math and when i got home yesterday, Bonnie had this all laid out on the table. Mmm. And look at those keen dishes! We have so many nice things and love pulling them out all the time. Thanks everyone!
Moving on, we went on a spontaneous climbing outing yesterday evening. It's light here until almost 10:00 right now, so there's plenty of time after work for this kind of thing. This was also our first "Real" climb of the season, since the last one we spent more time fording the river than climbing.
So this time around, we went to the backside of Tunnel Mountain (the fake mountain that town sits on). We only got one route in for fear of it getting dark on us (that means 2 climbs for me, since Bonnie forgot how to clean routes) and we had some stuff to remember. Also, the route we chose was a rather lengthy and sustained 5.9, if you know what that means (Hi Erin!). So here's the shots
Bonnie getting lowered
Bonnie at the top
Me setting up the anchor
About 1/3 of the way there...
Bonnie took this shot while I was setting the anchor up, so this is from the bottom of the climb (the top was almost 30m higher). Pretty good!
The walk to this rock was through a nicely forested and (thanks to the 7 days of rain) newly green valley floor. It goes along the Bow River (which is, of course, raging right now) and that was all you could hear for the walk.
It wasn't nearly this dark when I took this photo. I should have turned the flash off and done it again.
And finally, on the way out we stopped to take a look at Bow Falls.
Mission accomplished! All pictures accounted for. With that, I'm signing off. Cheers to you!
What's the brief skinny? Things are going on as usual out here. We had our May snows, our week straight of May rains (yep, 7 days straight), and now it's nice again. Work is the same and the town is much the same except that it's getting busier by the day.
Banff Refreshing, the redo of main street that began last spring, is back in business. They've got 2 of the 3 main intersections all but closed off, making driving downtown a total hassle and apparently the weather delayed the construction for 3 full weeks, making the new completion date just a few days before I get back from out East. That makes it about 9 months late overall! Well done!
First up on the pictures are some of the snow we got virtually overnight about 10 days back in mid May. Ah the May snows. These are both of our stairs and walk going down to our door.
Naturally, I couldn't not go skiing with all the fresh snow, so I went out. I got there late, much to my chargin, but was extremely pleasantly surprised that even at noon it was still impossible to NOT ski in powder that was a foot deep or more. NOthing like a mid May powder day!! Huzzah!!! Anyway, while driving there I was talking to mom on the phone and took this photo. Those little guys love the salt on the road.
Next up, a brief diversion just to assure the folks at home that we are, in fact, eating well and right. I tutor a neighbor's son in math and when i got home yesterday, Bonnie had this all laid out on the table. Mmm. And look at those keen dishes! We have so many nice things and love pulling them out all the time. Thanks everyone!
Moving on, we went on a spontaneous climbing outing yesterday evening. It's light here until almost 10:00 right now, so there's plenty of time after work for this kind of thing. This was also our first "Real" climb of the season, since the last one we spent more time fording the river than climbing.
So this time around, we went to the backside of Tunnel Mountain (the fake mountain that town sits on). We only got one route in for fear of it getting dark on us (that means 2 climbs for me, since Bonnie forgot how to clean routes) and we had some stuff to remember. Also, the route we chose was a rather lengthy and sustained 5.9, if you know what that means (Hi Erin!). So here's the shots
Bonnie getting lowered
Bonnie at the top
Me setting up the anchor
About 1/3 of the way there...
Bonnie took this shot while I was setting the anchor up, so this is from the bottom of the climb (the top was almost 30m higher). Pretty good!
The walk to this rock was through a nicely forested and (thanks to the 7 days of rain) newly green valley floor. It goes along the Bow River (which is, of course, raging right now) and that was all you could hear for the walk.
It wasn't nearly this dark when I took this photo. I should have turned the flash off and done it again.
And finally, on the way out we stopped to take a look at Bow Falls.
Mission accomplished! All pictures accounted for. With that, I'm signing off. Cheers to you!
posted by Anonymous at 4:47 PM
3 Comments:
And you are sitting on two chairs why? Yes you definitely live a good life out there. The scenery alone would make it a good life to wake up to every day. Oh to be young once again and be able to just get up and move.
love you
mom
ps. thanks for all the great pictures. makes me feel close
um, excuse me? are you living in Narnia? Are you friends with a a couple of talking beavers or a faun?
I love how you start with the snow out your door and you finish up in the sun on your porch drinking a beer. That's great.
love
mom
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