Monday June 19 - Day
17 of trip – Canmore, AB, Canada
Erik and family rolled out early headed to Lake Louise.
The mouse is still with us. Sorry SOB cleaned the peanut
butter off 3 of 4 set traps. I can only assume he would have cleaned the 4th,
but was too full by the time he got done with #3! Travis did not take this well and has now
GLUED a Honey Nut Cheerio to one of the traps and then shellaqued it with
peanut butter. I saw the little bugger
today too. He’s living in the storage space on the front end of the
camper.
Today we went to Canmore, a town about 20 miles southeast of
Banff. It was a nice little town, far less touristy, and like Banff, has tons of
developed foot/bike trails in the public forest surrounding town. We were on an
extended hike through one such area when we saw three bedded elk near the Bow
River on the edge of town. They were only about 25 yards off this foot trail and
clearly at peace with our company.
Returning to camp, we caught up with Erik and family. Travis and I loaded up with Erik, Tori and
Matt and hit the river. We put in just below Bow Falls there in Banff and told
Dee to pick us up ~20 miles to the south in Canmore. The run was a little sporty there at first but soon settled out into a swift but manageable run. I wished I could have
brought Amanda along, and God knows she was disappointed to not go, but I just didn’t
feel comfortable taking two kids down relatively unknown waters in a “high flow”
condition on the river. Amanda will probably forgive me in December or so. L Fair skies and good fortune kept us (mostly)
dry the whole trip, and it generally went according to plan. Although I did
make one wrong choice on routes, and we had to “shoot” a narrow gap between
opposing sweepers. A “sweeper”, is a tree
laying down over the river, invariably right at water level. You DO NOT want to contact one of these, because
they will sweep you right out of the canoe and cause a potentially very
dangerous situation. Fortunately, Travis
kept me out of the bad stuff, and it was a great run.
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| the launch |
Meanwhile, the ladies went into town.
At any rate, it was great to have a day on the trip shared
with one of our most treasured families.
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