Sunday, July 05, 2015
Canadian National Parks
These national parks in Canada can reduce your perspective.
The massive mountains ranges and glacier fed lakes and rivers become ordinary until you take that minute to stop.
It's during those times that dreams blur into reality. All you can do is let the experiences unfold.
We had been searching for the perfect hike. In Kootenay National Park, we found it. Or Amanda did.
Marble Canyon, an area devastated by a forest fire for 40 days in 2003, left in its wake a new landscape among territory long considered new.
What was definitely new for us was seeing a rainbow in a canyon:
At the end of the hike, there was a heavy waterfall to enjoy. I asked Riley if he thought the strong water created these cracks in the earth, but he thought the fire was so hot that it cracked the earth and then the water came in.
Sounds good to me.
As customary, we put on our swimmers and enjoyed the hot water pool, but waited til after dinner since it was so hot during the day and it doesn't get dark here until like 11 at night.
Finally though, we arrived at Glacier National Park today. Our speed.
After popping in the rapids, we participated in a sing along before making our own camp fire.
Australia, Netherlands, Switzerland, First Nations, Baltimore, 305 STAND UP.
All represented here at Ranger Larry's event. It was sweet.
Staying another night.
