Recently another blogger, an American ex-pat living and teaching in Thailand, mentioned she saw someone selling canned Canadian air to mainland Chinese tourists. Not a surprising scam. Whenever we’re hiking or snowshoeing in a Canadian national park, I always marvel sucking in fresh mountain air, gazing over clear turquoise gem lake waters, pristine expansive wilderness…
Tag: Banff National Park
Mountain Leaf and Light Dancing
Art and poetry are mere light and colour shadows, whisper-thin metaphors of Nature. Here are some paintings and haiku I fashioned. Windswept leaves flung Down mountain, spin freewheelin’ Water cradles home. Translucent layers Fold a mountain range, Copper-flames burnish gently. Glory gold glitter Rustles stories and dream-light Cast a fairy spell.
Lake Louise Snowshoeing: Snow Glazed Mountains, Ice Castles and Bison Reuben Sandwiches
Like every mountain snow-starved urbanite, we head to our choice mountain area for some snowshoeing. This time after an overnight stay in Banff, Alberta, we went to Lake Louise to explore both some familiar and other new trails. I last visited Lake Louise twelve years ago in the fall, when we were travelling across Canada…
Canadian Reindeer Look-Alikes: Elk, Caribou and Mule Deer
A few weeks ago, Ava, a Filipino blog reader wondered what elk was after I mentioned we were going to have elk for our Christmas meal. So after plumbing into our well of digital photo archives, I resurfaced with some wonderful photos: I just could not write a blog post that featured a dish of…
Rocky Mountain Cycling Interlude: Bighorn Sheep, Ragged Peaks and Turquoise Waters
You don’t need to be a mountain biker to see mountain ranges up close, orange paintbrush mountain flowers or herds of wild bighorn sheep with their babies. We just returned from several great days of cycle-touring in the Canmore-Banff area, which is over 120 km. north of Calgary. In the past, we have toured the…
