More from John Oldshue’s great Canadian adventure…
Week 2 Summary….
“Got ahead of myself yesterday and sent a bunch of snow pictures…here
is how the rest of the week went….
Monday we went to the Columbia Icefields and saw a glacier up
close…the kids were not that impressed….on the way back we saw a
black bear run across the road…
Tuesday we had a baby sitter and we hiked up above tree line and I
promptly passed out…lots of wildflowers…when we came back down we
found a mother grizzly and her cub at a safe distance of about 2 miles
across a valley…that big brown blob in that green stuff is her and
that little brown blob is her cub…side story-about 5 minutes later
we were driving along and saw a grizzly at about 5 feet looking to
cross in front of us…he promptly turned around and showed us his
backside…
Wednesday we went to Banff and went geocaching and found a bunch of
fun stuff..we also went canoeing…and when we got back everybody got
Oreo Ice Cream bars and Jake ate his and at the same time complained
he needed to go to the bathroom…Jake also found a snow plow train he
was excited about…
Thursday was the snow day…I sent enough of those pictures already
but included some more….saw another grizzly trying to cross the road…
Friday we went hiking…this was an uphill 2.5 mile round trip hike
and the boys did great…we were impressed…at the top was Grassi
Lakes which were crystal clear with beautiful aquamarine color….also
a few wildflowers…and to end the day we went looking for moose and
found 5 in one spot including a mom and calf….some really nice
mountain shots as the moon was rising…
Enough for now…maybe some more after the weekend….”
