Click to see short video of Greg riding the Twenty Mile Trail
I needed to pee in the worst way when we arrived at the trailhead for Twenty Mile Trail Loop in Jasper. I found some bushes a little ways from the parking area and just as I was yanking my bike shorts up I locked eyeballs [...]
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Our Canadian Rockies rule: never leave the trail head without rain gear, warm extra clothes, food and maybe a bear bell. The clouds gathered as we departed from Moraine Lake above Lake Louise on the Hi-line Trail. The thunder rolled and lightning cracked over our heads as we skittered over the rooty rocky trail downhill. The storm [...] Finally sitting in a cyber cafe after two weeks on the road and posting. I’ll try to fill in some details. We just arrived in Banff, Canada this morning and easily found a nice campsite a few miles out of town. A rain shower while we were setting up our campsite. Except for yesterday a rain [...] Staying closer to home for our next foreign trip. The Canadian Rockies in July — sightseeing, hiking, camping, mountain biking and more. See you there or here. We can blog this trip since we’ll be car camping and carrying a laptop—assuming occasional [...] Taking too long to edit our photos. So I started with a smaller chunk. Parque Nacional Las Glaciares in Argentina. This region has more glaciers and snow pack than any where else in the world except Antarctica. 49 degrees south meaning even in the summer it’s not hot. Patagonia is windy much of the time and [...] Incredible on a perfect [...] The mountains of Torres del Paine are maybe the most amazing we have ever seen. And our first time to see a glacier ending in the water. The face of the glacier is maybe 80 ft. high. And it amazing to be walking along in an alpine forest and seeing snow capped mountains above you and [...] Today we visited Magdalena Island, home for several months to 150,000 penguins. That is a lot of penguins. They are smaller than the emperor penguins. The weather in Patagonia is a rapidly changing mix of sun, rain and wind. Rains almost every day. But the scenery is great. Here in the very south mostly the vegetation, [...] Chile and Argentina here we come. We’re on board. Our travel companions Bob and Anita left yesterday and we’ll catch up with them [...] The trip was great. We met some wonderful people; reestablished relationships with others, enjoyed great scenery—natural and man made, had good food and wine, did some good hiking and biking. And learned some French— [...] |
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