Adventures in the great outdoors
Our friend Knox told us to go to Drumheller and because it would Not Stop Raining, we did. The week before, Drumheller had suffered from terrible flooding, the kind where all the news is about the flooding. We know this not because anyone told us, but because we were sick and tired of the rain, …
Okay, two brief stories: 1. At Lake Louise, we met the charming and garrulous Neil Cox. Neil plays the Alpenhorn, you know, that big long thing you see the guys in lederhosen wearing in videos of, oh, say, Austria. We had a nice long chat with Neil about where he got his horn (the first …
After what seemed like an eternity of driving, we’re up in the Rockies. We arrived in Jasper last night to yet another thundershower, but the weather is much better today and we had our first real day of adventuring. Man, is Canada big. Yesterday, when we got to Valemount, I was working through a “big, …
Washington state is home to 10% of the nation’s alpaca population. That’s a thing most folks wouldn’t know off hand, but for Duane, who runs Alpacas de la Flor with his family, it’s something right at the front of his mind. We leaned on the fence asking silly alpaca based questions while at the opposite …
My survey of snowshoe manufacturers is online here.
I’ve posted a few new pictures from our recent adventures in the snow here.