The Bow River runs through Banff and on to Calgary. It is wide and deep and full and mighty and amazing. The Bow is in the picture. Also must give a shoutout to the Flathead River in Montana, which runs through Missoula. Wow.
Category Archives: travel
Calgary, Alberta
Old growth and new
One day in Glacier National Park, we hiked through giant cedar, hemlock and black cottonwood trees to Avalanche Lake. The cedars were so large, it would take three people holding hands to encircle one. The next day, we hiked the Apgar Lookout trail, through the forest that burned in 2003. (That fire caused us to cancel our trip planned then and we are now getting here 9 years later.) Pines have grown back on Apgar trail to just the right size for a Christmas tree in a small apartment — 5 feet tall and skinny. I could encircle the trunk with my thumb and forefinger. Small but growing, burned but not obliterated.
We went to the sun
Glacier National Park…
University of Montana
Buffalo in Yellowstone
String Lake Hike…
This morning we hiked four miles on the String Lake hike inside Grand Teton National Park…
Morning in the Tetons
We hiked the 4-mile Swan Lake trail this morning. This is what it looks like…