Lunch walk literally right from camp ground. Cross roads if Huckaby and munds wagon trailheads.
After work, a short walk had high payoff at airport Mesa. Then we had a picnic dinner at cathedral peak. Our intent was to go to the top but it was busy and Ringo couldn’t scamper up the rocks like a Billy goat… He just looked like a clumsy doodle.
We left Kanab early and traveled to horseshoe bend outside of Page, AZ.
Next stop was Antelope slot canyon on the Navajo reservation. It was a beautiful short hike and I took too many pictures.
We meet Adam and Laura for dinner in Flagstaff. Then arrived in Sedona at sunset.
We left Vegas Friday and headed for Kanab Utah. We arrived in time to meet up with Julia and Dave and Jennifer and Danny for dinner at the peekaboo wood fired grill.
They left this morning but we were glad we had the chance to meet up with them.
I slept until almost 8, apparently I was still tired from the conference. Once we got moving, we had several fabulous hikes today. Belly of the dragon (a man made drainage tunnel) , Elkheart slot canyons, then the sand caves. We ate lunch at dark sky campground (leftovers) and headed back out to see the dinosaur tracks on bunting trail.
Bunting trail had dinosaur tracks. There were also petroglyphs at the top of this trail but we didn’t want to walk back in the dark.
It was a full day. I missed my person and am glad to be whole again. Dark Star campground is our host. Five out of five stars. Bonus points for the friendly cat.
Canada has given us a good run. In Saskatchewan, we visited 2 providential Parks: Cypress hills and Buffalo Pound.
Both were a little hilly nestled in e prairie. Cypress Hills was huge, had multiple campgrounds, had a pool and even a Lodge. Buffalo Pound was smaller but right on a lake. We should be in North Dakota within the hour. Goodbye Canada. It’s been fun
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We hit all the lakes and found the old hotel in Jasper. Then relaxed at the campground. There, we watched a little girl flat out get down at the taco food truck, played some music, saw the ex-pres was shot, discussed guns, then we played some more music, went to bed early and officially started our return trip home. Still trying to figure out how to never leave Canada but they don’t want us.
Check out the power stations in this bathroom. If the water was hotter they would have gotten my vote for the nicest bathrooms in all of Canada, but the koa in Cranbrook wins (so far)
Crowfoot glacier
Today we had a hearty breakfast with pastries, we hiked a bunch, saw 2-3 bears (we forgot to ask their names so one was most certainly the same dude), almost a moose, 2 glaciers up close… (More far away), several lakes I can name (malaigne, medicine, Cavell), ate a lot of pizza and went to bed tired.
Last night as we went to bed there was a fire raging that created all this smoke in the valley as we left to go back up to the ice fields.
Over the hill at the ice fields parkway, it cleared up and we saw Athabasca falls and Sumwapta falls.
Then, we took the lift to get some amazing views over Jasper.
We ended the day with restaurant food at Jasper brewing company which was just what the dr ordered. Clay and Jenny left today and we’ll miss them.
Started the day with a hike to Chephren lake. George and i had to run to get back to make our pre scheduled time on the sky walk and a walk on the Athabasca glacier.
Yesterday, Ringo was being tortured by a very pretentious squirrel. This went on far too long until we relieved him of his torment. Afterwards, we headed north on the ice fields parkway to Bow Glacier Falls hike which we rated 5 out of 5 stars. Especially if you get the ice cream sandwich at the cafe at the end of your hike.
We checked out of lake Louise hardside camping and landed in Silverhorn campground. Lawsy, the views from this campground are unbeatable. The hike today was short up to Peyto lake.
Today we biked to the ski area and took the lifts to the top of the ski slope. On the way up 4 different people told us there was a grizzly in the meadow and we assumed it was probably fake, but actually, it was real.
After seeing the bear and the electric fence to bear proof the visitor center we naturally decided to still exit through the gate and go for the hike to the kicking horse look out. (We did talk to three rangers about safety before going). We survived.
After dinner, we tried to sneak into the chateau. George and I got in, but they apparently didn’t want our business. It wasn’t nearly as cool as the banff springs hotel, nor as welcoming.
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