We arrived at Glacier National Park yesterday afternoon. The drive from Lake Louise was a bit cloudy and a little rainy, but still gorgeous. We got settled in our campsite and then headed out for a little exploring. First stop: Glacier Distilling (because it was 5:30pm and we thought they…
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We left Jasper this morning with Kyle (after saying goodbye to Tiffani and Deke, *sniff sniff*) and are heading down to Glacier National Park (the U.S. one) for a couple days before heading back to Portland. Bummer…that meant we had to drive the Icefields Parkway again. It was a bit…
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This morning Kevin and I headed over to do the Maligne Canyon hike (pronounced mah-leen). We started down at the trailhead at the Sixth Bridge and hiked up to the main trailhead (about 4.5 miles round trip). Somewhere around the Fifth Bridge the canyon starts to get all canyoney and the…
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Yesterday we headed out to Maligne Lake to see what the fuss was about. The fuss is about this: There's a little boathouse right as you approach, and we decided we owed it to ourselves to get a couple canoes and head out into the blue: Would you just LOOK…
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We left Banff (and the rest of our larger group…10 Airstreams!) the other day (Tiffani & Deke, Kyle Bolstad, and us) and headed north to Jasper. This drive is one of the all time most gorgeous drives and I was so happy to do it again. I took a TON…
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We left Banff the other day and drove the Icefields Parkway toward Jasper. We decided to stay at the campground/parking lot at the visitor center for the Athabasca Glacier and it was one of the coolest views ever. We got (kinda) level and then headed up to the glacier in…
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Today we headed over to the Sulphur Mountain Gondola to get a nice bird's eye view of Banff and the surrounding mountains. We'd done this once before and convinced Tiffani and Deke and Kyle Bolstad that it was worth it. Luckily, they agreed. We waited in line a bit to…
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This morning some of our group coordinated and drove up to Lake Louise to do some hiking. There were 12 or so of us who decided we'd hike to the tea house at Lake Agnes (and from there figured we'd decide based on how we felt if we wanted to…
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We had a gorgeous drive yesterday from Glacier to Banff and now we're all here together at another beautiful place. It rained a bit yesterday but I think some hiking is on the agenda for today. Set up at Banff: Today's office view:
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