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Day One in Kananaskis Country
Friday, September 9, 2016 Steps from our campsite in the Bow Valley Provincial Park along the Bow River. We left home around 7:30 in the morning stopping for gas in Oyen, then again in a small town...
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Day Two in Kananaskis Country
Crossing one of the many creeks that empty into the Bow River. In the morning we walked quite a few trails including the Many Springs, Middle Lake, and Moraine trails. When added up, we hiked 11.5 km....
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Bow Valley Provincial Park – September 9th to 11th
Bow Valley Provincial Park When you read this, we will be settled into a few days at Bow Valley Provincial Park which is at the beginning of Kananaskis country. We are planning on hiking when the...
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Day Three in Kananaskis Country
Maureen wanted this rock for her back yard. It rained all night and was still lightly raining when we packed up and left our campsite. It was only three degrees Celsius making the who process a chilly...
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Day Four in Kananaskis Country
We saw quite a few Spruce Grouse on the trail. It would have been easy to have one for supper. It dropped to zero overnight and took a few hours before it finally reached three degrees. We left for our...
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Day Five in Kananaskis Country
The two of us along the shore of Upper Kananaskis Lake. It froze last night with the temperatures going down to -2 degrees. It took a while to warm up so we didn’t begin our hike until 10:45. Today we...
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Peter Lougheed Provincial Park – September 11-16th
Peter Lougheed Provincial Park Once the weekend was over, we shifted our camping trailer into the Peter Lougheed Provincial Park where we had booked a site for five nights. The park is deep into...
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Day Six in Kananaskis Country
This rooster, a Spruce Grouse, decided he wanted to be friends with Maureen. We got off earlier this morning for our hike. We woke up to an outside temperature of zero and an inside temperature of five...
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Day Seven in Kananaskis Country
Lower Kananaskis Lake headwaters. Today we woke up to three degrees and the promise of sunshine. It took us a while before we decided to head out for a shorter walk than normal, an eleven kilometre...
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Waiting for the EPW
April fool’s morning. We are seven weeks away from our departure for Vienna, Austria, we find ourselves using every excuse to get outside to wander down streets and nature’s trails. We spent three...
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