Roadtrip! (redux)

Roadtripping with Brad is a bit more of a chill affair than driving with Logan (aka Brad actually stops). And he let me choose the music the whole time, which was fun. 

As I've mentioned before, I love this drive through the Crowsnest Pass and up Highway 22 so I took loads of pictures as I always do.

Logan told me that he once saw the 18 wheeler in front of him tip up onto one wheel while driving this stretch of road - it wasn't that windy when we drove it, but it obviously can get extremely windy!!

This sign always makes me laugh, because on the other end, when you're existing Longview, it tells you that there are no services for the next 100 and some kilometers, which is crazy. No big deal for people just driving through (though you are gonna wanna make sure you have enough petrol to see you through) but I can't imagine what its like for the people who live on the farms along this stretch of the highway - they must be very self-sufficient to live so far away from any services.

It was a gorgeous day for the drive, with only a couple of bits of rain on what was otherwise a gorgeously sunny and blue-skied day. We got Tim Hortons before we left Kimberley so I was sipping an ice cap through the mountains (*sigh*).

Of course, we saw lots of animals along the way - mostly cows, but we saw the occasional pasture full of horses. And you know how much I love seeing the calves, and there were lots of them to see!

Its crazy how much flood damage is still obvious all the way down into the Crowsnest. Loads of rivers are still full of trees, and you can see where the banks got pulled down. The section of Highway 22 that fell into the river last summer has been fixed though, so thats good (though the section of road that has been super uneven for years and they were ostensibly fixing last summer has, I think, if anything gotten worse...).

And then we were back at the farm!

There was a brief storm, during which I read, and then I helped Christine chop some rhubarb. Dad and I watched a movie that night, and ate some baked mac and cheese that mum had already prepped for us (we were feeling rather spoiled).

Hiking & Pseudo-Fathers Day

We decided to have our own Father's Day on the last weekend I was in Kimberley as Brad was down. Logan was at work during the day, but Brad and I went on a hike... 

We had a lovely father-daughter bonding moment at the beginning of the hike as we both took a couple of puffs off my nasty-tasting inhailer (next time I am so getting the brand name one). Asthma buddies!

It was a gorgeous day, and though there were some threatening clouds about, and the sound of thunder, it did not rain on us at all.

Due to a) Myrtle Mountain having a rather ridiculous trail system and b) someone being a very bad navigator, our trip to the top ending up being very long and winding (though still gorgeous).

We stopped at this log for quite a bit due to the fact that I largely couldn't breath anymore. At the point where dad was asking if I was okay and I couldn't get enough air to actually answer and was just waving at him was when he (smartly) decided to make me stop for a bit.

The view from the top was totally gorgeous! You can see all the threatening clouds mentioned earlier.

All in all we spent three hours on the mountain on what was a very nice hike - and only about five minutes from Logan's house to the trailhead!

There were loads of people out and about on the mountain, quite a few on bikes.

Once Logan got home from work, we picked up some pizza and slushies for dinner and then watched Terminator 2. I don't want to brag or anything, but I think it was a pretty awesome Father's Day.