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  • Mount Edith Cavell – Part 2

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    Like the last few years, there have been significant wildfires burning through the mountains which does reduce the hiking quality as it can be hard on the lungs. Despite that we did see the glacier.

    There were still some wildflowers which provides some end of summer meals for the butterflies.

    Getting high enough up allowed for some views of the lake with some big bergs in it.

    A wider shot shows off the smoke a bit more.

    Kerri continued to try to get some pictures through the smoke but it didn’t work too well.

    So we took a photo together and then head back to to recirculated filtered air back in the car.


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  • Mount Edith Cavell – Part 1

    Posted on by Kerri & Matt Comment

    On our way out to Edmonton we stopped in Jasper to hike the wildflower meadows near Mount Edith Cavell. Before we got to the meadows we spotted some small furry friends (Pika) collecting grasses to their holes in the moraines.

    They were patient with all the hikers interrupting their work.

    Back and forth they went taking load after load of greens.

    There were others out and about in the morning as well (maybe a Columbian ground squirrel).

    The really small ones were out looking to steal things from the unsuspecting hikers and unfortunately likely handfed.

    There was one real large one, we think it’s a Hoary marmot. It stayed further away along the moraine the whole time and only stalked by the photographers on the trail.

    It seemed to be looking for something, but we don’t know if it every found what it was looking for.

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  • Trans Canada Highway

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    Many parts of the Trans Canada Highway seemed more mountain-like than anything that we had previously seen in Ontario that were called mountains. Here’s a hint, if you build a road through mountains and just lay it straight up the mountain, it’s not a mountain. Roads through mountains look like this because you have to make a flat part to put the road on.

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    We also saw a guy selling knives from a stand on the side of the highway, a horse-drawn carriage, and a “warning horse drawn carriages” sign. Kerri wasn’t quick enough with the camera to get any of these things. But we know you won’t believe us unless there’s a picture so here you go:

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    Then we crossed a bridge into the US.

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  • Manitoulin Island

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    We took the ferry across to Manitoulin Island, which is the largest island within a lake in the world. This picture isn’t of the island, which was too big to take an interesting picture of.

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    The ferry passed a cormorant with a very orange beak.

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    This is the largest lake within the largest island in the world.

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    And this is the largest island within a lake within an island within a lake in the world.

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    There are several lakes within that island, and some of them even have islands. But we decided we’d have enough of this nonsense and moved on.


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  • Singing Sands Fen

    Posted on by Kerri & Matt Comment

    Fens are wet.

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    So of course this path was flooded too.

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    And Kerri was weighed down by a hitchhiker.

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    And we had to dodge carnivorous plants.

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    And evil kidnapping plants.

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    They lure bees inside and then trap them and refuse to release them until they are covered in pollen.

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    They hang out in gangs.

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    Big bee-bullying gangs.

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    We’re sure these plants are evil too.

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    Although we aren’t sure exactly how.

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    Oh, and there were even some carnivorous animals too!

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