June/July 2024

Chester lake

Ramon on Windtower, near summit (photo by friend Kenato) I wasn't invited!  Mt Lougheed to the left, Spray lakes below.

Mt Remus to the right

City keeps getting closer to the mtns.

Banded peak...still snow bound in late June.

Mtn biking in May

Rode the recently completed Stoney Trail ring road early Sunday morning.  100kms exactly.  5 hours.  Safer than the ebike filled pathways!

Floating down the Elbow.  Wonder why the Saddledome flooded 10 years ago?

Somewhere near Baker Creek....

Another spring ride from Banff to Moraine lake and back.  150kms or so.

3 guys skied 3/4 coulouir and that morning and lived to tell me about it!

Spring Dandies on the Bow Valley Parkway.....

.....bring out the wildlife for a feast.  I don't think he liked the smell of me.

...another float down the Elbow river

along the elbow...

You know it's a risky scramble when you come across old pitons. West Baldy.

Piggy made it safely to the top!

Me and the Goose!

Some type of sunflower say my app called 'seek'

Who u lookin' at?

con la media naraja

a dicot? mt pansie?

I was distracted by the backdrop, as Ramon hogs the ball.

RIP Ron :(

Bye Ron...outside the kitchen window

Bean's fave meal

Mt. Louis...highwater mark of my climbing era

Lake miniwanker

Pedal more, work less

Crusing with Vaughan

Pa takes flight....just like he did when he was in grade 5, riding a banana bike and making jumps.“Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Ha! Mathew 18:3....says google. 

first nations paintbrush😉

Hiking up Porcupine creek and ridge on a drizzly morning....

Chip off the old block....apple doesn't fall far from the tree.....like father like son....

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common lichen

Que buen musculo!  The kid is ripped!

Just another summer day in Calgary....the 'blue sky city' they rebranded it now. 😦

There is a guinea pig somewhere in this photo

Tiger salamander on Nose Hill

Just another average Calgary vista.

Prairie creek

Pattern on a rock, just like a Leunig drawing.

https://artimagesgallery.com.au/product/michael-leunig-a-good-day/

The app say 'Gnophaela'  I'd call it a caterpillar by any other name.

Floating down the bow with the Pelicans

eeewww

No I don't ride those bits.

Must have a salty thumb

The mighty Yam from Powderface ridge.  Ramon has climbed it X3.  Carla once.  Even Mr. afraid of heights, Uncle Darren!

Powderface ridge ride

app says rose family.  Not a pasque flower??

Don't need an app to tell me what these are.  

Camping on Tunnel mtn.  Just me and the Goose.  Just before the inevitable yearly fire ban

We love our pop up tent.

Mr. Groundhog lookin' fer breaky.  He got some too!

Mr. Squirrel eating charred plantain.

Goose slurping spaghetti squash....

....just like when she was a kid :)

This round Groundhog seems to have been hitting the calorie laden pasta this season.

Weeee!

Two Jack Lake/Mt. Rundle summer paradise.  

How do you spell Ramen?

Gaillardia....app kept messing me up so I refered to the info board

Early morning dew.....zoom effect

Go Goose!

On the way to Chester lake

Fuzzy white stuff, after the snow melted.

Chester lake

....more

...can't get enuf of Chester!

Chip off the old block....apple doesn't fall far from the tree.....like father like daughter?....

Native Cutthroat trout

Pine box drop?

Cairn building activity

"we weren't able to identify this photo"  hmmm....maybe i'll try a different app.

Mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufjv0SRZ-IY

Don't have a photo yet of Carla in her kitchen uniform, as she got a PT summer job at the Winston Golf course washing dishes/kitchen prep and she likes it!

The mighty Moose Mtn, with some strange clouds

Al smacks a line drive.  Such power at age 77!

This is a lily.  Says me.

This is a pig, says Carla

3 hour climb up the Moose.

Mtn goats coming down Moose mtn

Banded peak later in the season

Gotta hoof it the rest of the way up Moose mtn, just like the mtn goats.

Ramon's first vehicle.  Sort of.  I bought it, he can use it.  2012 Sienna. 1 owner. Only $2,000. Why you ask? because it has a half million kms! Needs nothing.

From old buddy Alan Kane of said guide book: https://rmbooks.com/products/scrambles-in-the-canadian-rockies-3rd-edition.  He got a newer 2018 with 170,000kms for 30K.  He'll be turning his clock over to 70 years of age in December.  Apparently it takes a lot of driving in order to write and update a guide book about scrambling in the Rockies! 

2012 Sienna AWD.  Parked the 2006 sienna in the back.  For now.

Obligatory summer saskatoon photo. yum.

Tropical looking vegetation below Prairie mtn.

I already told you what these are!

Twas a glorious summer for flowers in the mtns!

Good for another half million? I put it in reverse for the photo, so we can run it back to zero😂 Came with a double your $ back guarantee if it broke down during the last 1000kms before turning over to 500000. He didn't want to jinx it and do it himself!

Lost track of the number of 5lb boxes of blueberries I've eaten so far.  Yes I shared.  A few. Like maybe 3.  Berries, not boxes.

Wild fresas

If you spend too much time under the chockstone tempting fate.....

.....this is what happens.

No....he just wasn't lookin' where he was going and a branch jumped out and poked him.

obviously an orchid....the app says 'larkspurs' ???

My unique dual/side by side water bottle/bear spray holder.

Your turn to take a guess.  

Lady bug, lady bug, fly away home....

Grass pass

Kevin on Snakes and Ladders

Ramon with a one day E bike rental.  He just laughed at me whilst cruising up the 3 climbs for the day.

...gettin' some air

Raven twins

old mr. billy....gettin' a drink on a hot summer's day

Mr. Marmot just hanging out, observing the strange behaviour of a human on 2 wheels

Wish I could do that!

Sublime....

Perfect width

Ramon's new steed.  Says he'd rather ride to the U than take the bus, for which a pass is included in his fees. $350 used.  Put wider tires on it and voila! it turns into a trendy gravel bike.

Glad with missed the hail part of this wicked storm!  Our car is grateful too.  Next time I'll get a blanket on it tho.