2006 - AGM, Sun Peaks, Mountain Biking in the Rockies, Mt. McQuire

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Location of the AGM 
The Annual General Meeting - February 10-12 -

Keith Akenhead and Bob Cuthbert

Never before has trail breaking been so challenging. I started out dragging a sled thinking that would make things easy, only to find out that the thick fresh snow made us dig a deep trench breaking trail, so the sled simply tilted onto its side and soon flipped over. I never have liked dragging a bulldozer!
We ended up having to dump our packs, break trail for a ways, then come back for our packs and essentially break trail again with the increased weight on our backs. It was horribly slow.
Finally Keith Akenhead, Bob Cuthbert, and myself made camp only about a third as far as we hoped to get that day. The weather stayed just below freezing for the next two nights, making staying dry a challenge.

Chuck and Ken

Ken Willis and Chuck McCafferty came up the second day and we had our usual fun "annual general meeting" in the big tent. 

Spring Break - Sun Peaks
Alan Lizee and I drove up to Sun Peaks and stayed in his sister and brother in law's condo at Sun Peaks. The first day we cross country skied and the second day we down hilled. I was please that with shaped skies I could down hill quite well after not having done it for so long, but boy did I get tired quickly!

Alan Lizee

Canmore Mountain Biking - July 2006

Lynn and I drove up to Canmore with our bikes and stayed in the Bow Valley Motel again and we did some biking up at the nordic center on the Banff Trail and on the Canalside to Quarry Lake trails. It was unfortunate that they had done a lot of work on the nordic trails making some of them a mud pit, but we had a great time anyway. Oh yes, the restaurants in Canmore are great and the liquor store has a great selection of wines and scotch! :-)

Lynn just above Canmore

Jasper Mountain Biking - July 2006

After three nights in Canmore, Lynn and I drove up to Jasper and stayed in a small cabin at the "Pine Bungalows". Starting out at Old Fort Point, we did the Valley of the Five Lakes trail . It is an intermediate trail with many great fun sections, but it also has steep sections that turned it into a "bike and hike". It was well worth doing, and quite long. We came out on theIceFields Parkway and rode the ten kilometers back to Jasper on the smooth pavement. :-)

Lynn on the Valley of the Five Lakes Trail.

The view from our cabin out over the Athabasca River and on to Mt. Edith Cavell made for an idyllic scene. If we have anything to do with it, the Pine Bungalows will see us again.

Lynn ponders Edith Cavell.

Mt. McQuire - July 2006
Alan Lizee and I tried to hike up Mt. McQuire but because I only drove up a couple of kilometers on the Borden Creek road, we had a long hike up the road before we even got to the trail. There was a ditch across the road which I was uncomfortable with, and we parked the car and walked. It was too bad as it was a great day and it would have been nice to get to the top.
The picture below is of the American and Canadian border peaks on the right, and the Pleiades on the left.

The Pleiades and the border peaks looking up Slesse Creek.