Bowmont Park-A sunny day in Feb

Just a gorgious day in Bowmont Park. The ice rafts getting all caught up along the bend in the river. The temperature was hovering around zero.


sneaking in a quick kiss in the middle of the park...

It was the laziest thing we could do.....was just walk for a few hours
Nakita likes to run circles around us. K

Girls Night at Bradshaw Estates_Valentine's Party 07

It all started with a serious cleaning of the house. Thanks to Cam for all his help. The sun was shinning on the day of the event. Feb 24th.07. Ready for the 7pm start
Andrea, Jen, Shannon and Jodene dig into the food of the night.
The girls gabbing. Andrea, Jen, Alica and Rebecca all enjoying some good conversation.
Everyone taking in some sushi, chocolate and their favorite wines...
Red was the theme: For Valentine's day. A little late, but never too dull.

Anna and Marianne are chit chatting about their children....

Astrid is showing everyone her blog ....and Mathew of course....
Jodene and Alicia are chatting about Africa...
Rebecca and Shannon getting to know each otherKaren and Karen....taking the last photo of the night....good night, and I will wait until the chocolate headache hits me in the morning.....

Back Country Trip_Mt Burgass_Feb

Feb 3rd I signed up for a backcountry Powder day with the University of Calgary Outdoor Center. I went with two friends from work. Adam and Jeff. We followed each other into the woods and a total of 5.5hrs of uphill climbing.....

We were suppost to go up to Storm Mountain, but ended up following the snow to Mt Burgass. We would head up from the Emerald Lake parking for staff, and up to the base of the Mountain.





We hiked up almost 4 hours before seeing the top of the treeline. We could see Mt Burgess just through the trees. Only a mere -14degrees.We were a the base of an upper mountain slope. Looks like it was a puffy snow wonderland...



.....and we kept climbing, and climbing. Murry our guide, kept on climbing...


When it was all said and done we were on the trial for 5.5hours and almost 3000ft of elevation. We had marginal ski conditions. I seemed to be the only one on Telemark skiis and I found out later that that would be difficult to ski back throught the trees....Adam found the deep snow very tiring....he is not sleeping!!
A view of the hike from the road...Jeff, Adam and I posing for the camera

Tired and silly, the drive home was right at dusk and I just couldn't keep these two apart...look forward to the next trip. We headed into Canmore for a little dinner and beer, and headed home to be back by 11:00pm..and adventure.