It rained, then rained some more, then rained some more

Last Weekend….

So last week I headed out to Kananaskis Country, (K-country as it’s called around here).  The weather forecast called for a 40% chance of showers so I figured I was good to go.  I headed out Friday after work in a light rain that slowly intensified on the drive out.  By the time I got to the Blue Rock Campground it was a fairly steady rain. 

http://albertaparks.ca/sheep-river.aspx 

It was so wet and cold I couldn’t even start a fire.  I popped the top and settled in for the evening.  After a cold meal and reading I called it a night. 

That night it poured

That morning it poured

Finally around 11:00 or so it let up enough that I could start a fire with my wet fire wood and cook dome food.  After a hastily prepared breakfast I headed out for a walk.  I surveyed the low hanging clouds and decided to chance it.  There was a  nice looking 2.5 km loop that I thought I’d try.  I dressed and headed out.  The path was really nice along the river and easily walk-able.   Due to the recent rain (see above) and the mountain runoff the rivers were swollen and running fast. 

I’ll continue this post and add some pictures  later tonight or tomorrow….

Okay, I’m behind a little bit.  Lets rewind a couple of weeks ago for my first camping outing of the year.  I headed out to Two Jack Lake in Banff National park.  It was great, as always.  It was a fairly quiet weekend and there were loads of choice spots to choose from.  For a little while I was the only person on the entire loop.  I settled in, started a fire, cracked a beer then cracked my book.  The peace and solitude was amazing.    I’m not complaining but the peace soon ended as the RVs started arriving. 

Next to me a big RV pulled in and a really nice German couple were my neighbors for the night.  Christoph, Isabelle and Levi.   I invited them over to share the fire and have a beer.  Other than loving the Westy, it turns out that Christoph and the family are trekking across Western Canada and into the US, Alaska and into the Arctic Circle.   Apparently it’s been a dream of Chris’ to go that far north.  He’s been doing his own blog of sorts.  Check it out here http://trackmytour.com/Xg2sv .  They had a little trouble with the visa for little Levi and had to hang around Calgary for a little bit so I suggested they head out towards Drumheller.  They had a great time and even stopped into my place for some burgers and Smores for dinner one night before hitting the open road again.

That weekend I also had my friends Nicole and Linda show up.  It was really kinda fun.  We had a great meal, drank far too much wine and played Jenga on a picnic table that wasn’t quite level.  The interesting thing about the Jenga game was that it was the “Truth or Dare” version.  The red blocks were the Dares and the black blocks were the Truth.  Dares and Truths ranged from exchange an article of clothing with the person next to you, kiss the person next to you and so on.  It was fairly tame and we didn’t actually play the Truth or Dare version.  Maybe next time we’ll play and after a few more bottles of wine. 

Overall not a bad weekend.