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Visiting ND

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

We stopped by to visit our pal Brice in Mandan, North Dakota again this year. He has a nice place right on the Missouri River.

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Brice and his girlfriend Katia ready for trip to the local honky-tonk bar.

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Katia, Dave, and Brice down at the fishin’ hole.

Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

Water Lakes National Park in Canada and Glacier National Park in the US border each other and form an international national park. The US side is much bigger, but they are both very nice and for all you hikers out there I highly recommend a trip. We only got to take a couple of hikes while we were there, but I’d love to go back and do more. Lots of wildlife as well, we saw 3 black bears (a mamma and 2 cubs), lots of mountain goats and bighorn sheep, tons of friendly (too friendly?) deer, and the most obese squirrels I’ve ever seen.

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One of the over-friendly deer on the Canadian side. When we woke up there was a huge one right outside the RV. Dave almost hit it with the door!

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Really cool waterfall on the Canada side. See how it is cutting through the curved bedding planes of the rock?

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Here’s a squirrel picture for Lane. This has got to be the fattest ground squirrel I’ve ever seen.

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Beautiful scenery along the trails.

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Mountain goats.

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Hiking along the skyline trail to one of the chalets. There are two chalets in the park you can hike to and spend the night there. We just hiked there and back in one day, though.

Canadian Rockies – is it really possible to have too much of a good thing?

Thursday, August 31st, 2006
Since we’ve been in the Canadian Rockies we’ve hiked well over 100 kilometers. The National Parks up here Jasper, Banff, Yoho, and Kootenay along with a few connected Provincial Parks offer almost unlimited opportunities for day hikes and backpacking. Also, ... [Continue reading this entry]

Nearly forgot, some dodgy tourist attractions

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006
These photos were actually taken before we left BC and came over to where we are now, the Mile 0 is in Dawson Creek and the giant beaver is in, where else, Beaver Creek! CA-mile0.jpg Here ... [Continue reading this entry]

Backpacking in Mt. Robson Provincial Park

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006
The Berg Lake trail in Mt. Robson Provincial Park is a famous, beautiful backpacking trail. Unfortunately, it also gets about 200 people a day hiking the darn thing so we went to nearby Mt. Fitzwilliam trail instead. When we signed ... [Continue reading this entry]

Never run from a bear….unless you are faster than the other people around!

Friday, August 18th, 2006
So, we arrived here in Jasper National Park ready for a lot of great hiking. Thanks to a book Andy McConville bequeathed to me when he left Core Lab ‘Classic Hikes in the Canadian Rockies’ we were prepared. Thanks, Andy. ... [Continue reading this entry]

Back to BC, Animals Everywhere!

Friday, August 11th, 2006
We left the Yukon and are back in BC now, we've seen wild buffalo, caribou, Stone sheep and moose since we've been here. No bears this time, though, which is strange. I miss my bears! It's been weeks since a ... [Continue reading this entry]

Back to Canada, Kluane Again

Thursday, August 10th, 2006
The day we left Alaska and headed back into Canada we had a strange occurance. We were headed for one of the campgrounds in Kluane National Park but our navigation and driving did not match up and we ended up ... [Continue reading this entry]