http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/theisen/ high points & low points en-us sissyt100@hotmail.com Sun, 17 Sep 2006 15:12:25 -0800 http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/theisen/archives/017724.shtml We have spent the last week hanging out with our families here in Willow Springs. It's been a nice rest, regroup, reconnect time. We leave from St. Louis next Sunday headed for Tanzania. I will post a few photos of... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/theisen/archives/017688.shtml 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. Brice and his girlfriend Katia ready for trip to the local honky-tonk bar. Katia, Dave,... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/theisen/archives/017687.shtml 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... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/theisen/archives/017651.shtml 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,... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/theisen/archives/017601.shtml Well, we've seen so many people traveling wearing just the most inappropriate clothing imagineable. Finally, when we saw this I decided these people should be put up for everyone to appreciate along with us. :) Here is the first addition... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/theisen/archives/017599.shtml 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! Here is the famous mile 0... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/theisen/archives/017598.shtml 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... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/theisen/archives/017579.shtml 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.... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/theisen/archives/017529.shtml 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... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/theisen/archives/017524.shtml 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... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/theisen/archives/017522.shtml Leaving Alaska So, the day we left we went out for sourdough pancakes for breakfast for a last bit of tradition before we head into Canada. We sure have had a good time up here. You know, when we bought... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/theisen/archives/017521.shtml So, after spending my birthday in the relative luxury of an RV park (electricity and showers that are not 2 feet wide!!!) we got to go back in to Wrangell-St. Elias National Park. It has two areas with trails and... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/theisen/archives/017454.shtml Driving and hiking along the Denali Highway is one of the coolest things to do in Alaska. We were lucky and had sunshine for the start of the trip, although it rained on us before the day was over (big... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/theisen/archives/017442.shtml Alaska National Parks are not really like a lot of the National Parks in the lower 48, like the Grand Canyon or Yellowstone. Wrangall-St. Elias National Park is the largest National Park area-wise with only two short roads going into... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/theisen/archives/017441.shtml This is a privately accessed glacier, so you pay the people who own the access. It was worth the $15 bucks, though. Glaciers are really so amazing, moving rivers of ice. Let's bring back the Ice Age! I want glaciers...