Earlier this month we rode our bikes from Three Sisters, through town to the other side of the valley, to take a firsthand look at Cougar Creek - the site of so much flood damage in June. We thought we had a pretty good sense of how extensive the damage would be, given all the …
I'm working on a blog post about our first big hike of the 2013 summer season, but it's taking longer than I expected. So I decided to pull together a set of photos from earlier this month, when a herd of about 30 elk hung around our Canmore backyard for pretty much an entire day. …
One of our favourite all-season walks in Canmore is along Three Sisters Creek, starting just upstream of the Three Sisters Parkway, continuing through the unfinished Three Sisters golf course and Bow Valley Wildland Provincial Park, stopping at what we call "the big falls". It's a short walk, but over the past few years we've learned …
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Of course the weather didn't cooperate! The rain started falling at 4:18 am and before 6 o'clock the percussive impact of fat raindrops on the fly over my tent prompted me to dress, pack and exit my shelter. I discovered a few other parents were up, too. Over mugs of hot coffee, we decided to …
Our last full day in Jasper all the parent volunteers were up early again, cooking breakfast and setting up the "pack it yourself" lunch station. By 8:30, students were tucking into scrambled eggs, chicken & apple sausages and hashbrowns, with sliced oranges and bananas on the side. After clearing and washing the breakfast dishes, they …