New Threads and Wet Mountains
Ahhh, its good to be back at the parents. Good food, my old dog, and my the company of those who raised me. I'm always taken care of so well here.. food is put in front of my constantly, along with all my mom's herbs and remedies. The rents even took me out shopping at the local bike shop and I managed to pickup new shoes, a new jacket, new windbreaker, new gloves, and a new touqe. SCORE! The best part about it was I got it all for regular price of the jacket. How? You might ask. Well son, 70% off on everything. It's all great quality stuff too, (ie. burton, concept, sombereo, vans)
I consider myself super lucky, and I think my mom considers herself super lucky to hit the sale on the last day. :)
After out little shopping spree, we headed east to revelstoke and up a 26km road with 16 switchbacks to the top of mount revelstoke. It poured the whole way, and the low lying fog obscured our vision, so travel was slow. We let out our dogs at the top and hiked the alpine to to the peak. Talk about cheating... every other time I've seen alpine I've spent hours hiking and climbed many many metres. Ah well, it was a nice change.. and was great for my mom, it allowed her to appreciate the alpine that people seldom see. Unfortunately due to being foggy as hell, we missed the scenic 360 degree view at the peak. However, a walk through alpine is always appreciated in my books, regardless of the conditions. I even saw the "fly algaric" or amanita muscaria mushroom for the first time. It has been used for visionary purposes since the dawn of time.
We walked back down to the car and packed our soggy dogs into the back seat (with yours truly) and headed down the mountain. We stopped by the revelstoke hydro-electric dam on the way home and did the tour. Kinda interesting.. I was impressed with the sheer size, but was nothing that I hadn't seen national lampoons family vacation. ;)
It all leads to me being here, writing this, another update to the continuing chronicles.
Day Two of Cleansing.... COMPLETE!
I consider myself super lucky, and I think my mom considers herself super lucky to hit the sale on the last day. :)
After out little shopping spree, we headed east to revelstoke and up a 26km road with 16 switchbacks to the top of mount revelstoke. It poured the whole way, and the low lying fog obscured our vision, so travel was slow. We let out our dogs at the top and hiked the alpine to to the peak. Talk about cheating... every other time I've seen alpine I've spent hours hiking and climbed many many metres. Ah well, it was a nice change.. and was great for my mom, it allowed her to appreciate the alpine that people seldom see. Unfortunately due to being foggy as hell, we missed the scenic 360 degree view at the peak. However, a walk through alpine is always appreciated in my books, regardless of the conditions. I even saw the "fly algaric" or amanita muscaria mushroom for the first time. It has been used for visionary purposes since the dawn of time.
We walked back down to the car and packed our soggy dogs into the back seat (with yours truly) and headed down the mountain. We stopped by the revelstoke hydro-electric dam on the way home and did the tour. Kinda interesting.. I was impressed with the sheer size, but was nothing that I hadn't seen national lampoons family vacation. ;)
It all leads to me being here, writing this, another update to the continuing chronicles.
Day Two of Cleansing.... COMPLETE!
posted by Mike Linthorne at 7:27 PM
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