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Saturday, June 6, 2009

Touring the Banff area

June 6, 2009
Banff, AB

Today, we woke up to a light coating of wet snow on the ground. Ouch! It's June, for crying out loud. Not wanting to let it get in the way of seeing the area, we took a drive to Lake Louise and Moraine Lake. We started with a stop at Lake Minnewanka, where we had a few photo opps. On the way back to Banff, we stopped at Johnson Canyon for an easy walk up to the lower waterfall (we passed on the extra 2.7 km hike to the upper falls - I think we've figured out the difference between a "walk" and a "hike").

It's beautiful country here, although the day started out a bit cloudy and blustery. We've got the "dress in layers" thing down. Wildlife sightings have included elk and deer, and a potentially rapid chipmunk at Johnson Canyon. Click here for pictures.

Back at the camp, Geri did some laundry and made dog food - gotta mix in the everyday stuff with the wonderful surroundings.

I'm getting behind on the blog since the days are so active and Internet access is becoming spotty, so I'll probably focus more on posting pictures with captions and put fewer words in the blog for a bit. I'm still having trouble posting pictures to the blog, so I apologize in advance for using links to albums.

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