Mosquito Creek - Adventures with Skylar and Darian

June 29, 2019

Merging Manitoba and Alberta into new memories and a meaningful experience.

Day Two

Breakfast and Local Exploring
Bow Summit & Peyto Lake viewpoint
Caldron Peak Trail
Chateau Lake Louise
Alpine Social

 

Breakfast and Local Exploring      
20190629_125212.jpg (8371740 bytes) Who knew they even had a playground? 20190629_125214.jpg (8724249 bytes) Adult strength too.  20190629_140259.jpg (6033615 bytes) Had to go and invite Darian.  
       
Bow Summit & Peyto Lake Viewpoint      
20190629_142314.jpg (4008539 bytes) Sucks to have to take a pee around here. Same lineups as at the stadiums after a game. Maybe the hikes around here have a special effect on you. 20190629_143543.jpg (4146024 bytes) That color is crazy. Wonder what color it would be in my clear water bottle?  20190629_143553.jpg (4639543 bytes) Nice spot here for tobogganing in the winter.  Go for hike eh!

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and we're back.

20190629_165646.jpg (5767227 bytes) Legs are like rubber  20190629_165724.jpg (5946798 bytes) Still don't know why we couldn't see the lookout from down there. 20190629_165726.jpg (5335127 bytes) Life's mysteries 20190629_171238.jpg (6569996 bytes) You want mysteries, tell me why I haven't been mowed down yet by any of these crazy tourist. 
20190629_171241.jpg (6128209 bytes) Hang on buddy, I'm moving. Impressive lineup on the outhouse still eh! 20190629_171346.jpg (6132441 bytes) Would you like some trail mix bird?  Would I! 20190629_171453.jpg (4932567 bytes) Prefer the nuts OK.   20190629_171431.jpg (4523223 bytes) Tell these other guys I do chips and popcorn too. 
       
Caldron Peak Trail The hike...    
20190629_144336.jpg (9005643 bytes) Didn't take the right split on the trail, but if we just bushwhack through here we gotta hit it.  20190629_144339.jpg (6154585 bytes) Dang steep here. 20190629_144555.jpg (6851081 bytes) Sliding on your buts works... 20190629_144625.jpg (8047259 bytes) Stopping at the bottom is a challenge.
20190629_145838.jpg (6860085 bytes) Must be the right trail now.  20190629_145842.jpg (7144978 bytes) I feel like I'm sinking in this boggy moss. 20190629_145844.jpg (7122633 bytes) OK, solid now, hairs good to. 20190629_150504.jpg (8563269 bytes) Good thing a packed this light snack.
20190629_152335.jpg (5603702 bytes) The snows great for skiing down. Plus we made some orange Tang snow-cones.  20190629_152336.jpg (5739154 bytes) Ramping up for some snowball baseball. Got the bat. 20190629_152339.jpg (5853159 bytes)  Some balls coming up. 20190629_152458.jpg (5202463 bytes) Pitch looks good, he's gonna swing...
20190629_152500.jpg (5065594 bytes) Rock in the shoe. Hang on. 20190629_152504.jpg (5508275 bytes) OK, that's strike three and you're out. Last one to the beach is a... 20190629_153300.jpg (6130232 bytes) Nice walking on flats stuff for a change.  20190629_153305.jpg (5975757 bytes) With the odd stream to hop over. 
20190629_153307.jpg (6194002 bytes) Go to try keep these shoes dry.  20190629_153753.jpg (1391375 bytes) So this is what the glacier looks like behind me.  20190629_153803.jpg (5278437 bytes) Over in the green slope is where we were with all the other tourists, can't seem to see them now.  20190629_154302.jpg (4911268 bytes) Cool and windy out here. 
20190629_154332.jpg (3687754 bytes) Yea, it's messing with my hair big time. 20190629_154340.jpg (4749653 bytes) Good now. Go for the shot.  20190629_154404.jpg (4096518 bytes) Up for a quick dip?   20190629_154421.jpg (5145795 bytes) Simple brain freeze should do for me. 
20190629_154655.jpg (2879090 bytes) Here's a bugs eye view of my pack and the glacier. Kind of blends in with the clouds now. 20190629_154710.jpg (4877675 bytes) Dealing with some respiratory issue for a minute. 20190629_160225.jpg (5368588 bytes) The all-out sprint up really warms up the body.  20190629_160229.jpg (5839994 bytes) Yea, this is nice. draw the heat out of your but. 
20190629_160240.jpg (5180318 bytes) Need more. That's cooling me down now. 20190629_160248.jpg (6361634 bytes) Can you see Darian way up there. It your Where's Waldo shot.  20190629_160450.jpg (5716315 bytes) Skylar finds more energy and burst up again. 20190629_160451.jpg (5630844 bytes) Steep up on slippery show is tricky.
20190629_161003.jpg (5807635 bytes) Remember the tortoise and the hare, well the hare's sleeping and us tortoises finally caught up and are moving on.  20190629_163518.jpg (8531091 bytes) Picking the perfect walking stick. Lots of tricky roots to trip over on the path you know.    
       
Lake Louise Lake Shore      
20190629_194659.jpg (4236870 bytes) Nothing like an evening stroll around Lake Louise. Any chance we have time to rent a canoe?   20190629_194710.jpg (4036502 bytes) OK, Hairs got that cool rugged and wind swept look.  20190629_194711.jpg (4116150 bytes) yea, right , smile...  
20190629_204309.jpg (4708410 bytes) Kind of feel like Leonardo DiCaprio at the front of the Titanic, cold air, glazier Ice, ice blue water...  20190629_204506.jpg (3593598 bytes) Look sweetie, you got me thinking of you so much and have to keep blowing off the guys, even in this amazing place. We really need to come up here. Save up a bit of cash, its only a grand or 2 a night.     
       
Alpine Social      
20190629_200157.jpg (2951469 bytes) After chatting it up with the girls from the various restaurants we settled for poutine here.  20190629_200201.jpg (3424295 bytes) Played a game of "guess my accent" with the cute waitress. We bombed. 

Nice $30 hamburgers. 

20190629_200212.jpg (3288058 bytes) Real vodka in the water bottle too. Or was it real water in a vodka bottle?  
       
2nd Dinner      
20190629_220038.jpg (3445528 bytes) As if the day wasn't pack enough. Time for the full on carnivore dinner. 20190629_223213.jpg (3739802 bytes) and we do dishes and clean up too. After which the Mosquito Creek night life begins again. Met Jerry and the bicycle crew.  Tried not to go too crazy. Checkout is 10:00 am tomorrow.