Travel with Art

It was a pleasant drive to Calgary. The weather forecasts continue to be wrong: they call for rain and thunderstorms and I get clear, sunny, and warm. Day 2 and I headed out with Ivan to meet Susan and her kids: Jane, Sam and Andrew. We continued out to the ski resort of Sunshne near Banff to hike the trails of Sunshine Meadows. An old school bus runs you up the 5 kilometres and the majority of the elevation to the base village where most of the trails flow into. From there you get to head out on a network of many kilometres of hiking trails. All have good footing and rest benches along the way. We did the hike to Rock Isle Lake and onwards to the look off of Monarch, and finally a circuit around Larix Lake. If you are interested in gorgeous hiking read on at http://sunshinemeadowsbanff.com/sunshine_meadows/sunshine_meadows.htm Next I met Jeanne to celebrate her birthday with lunch at The Broken Plate Greek restaurant. From there we continued on to wine tasting and shopping at the Wi

After a couple of days in Whitecourt I headed on down to Lethbridge to spend time with Carmen, Sharon and their girls Kathryn and Jessie. 6.5 hour drive with the Stoney Trail bypass of Calgary now operational. Hot sunny days on arrival - hope it keeps up. Friday morning Kathryn headed off to her summer job at the YMCA as a youth camp leader. Carmen, Sharon and I headed off to meet Teles (a friend of the family) to head on to golf at Picture Butte. Not too hot, a light wind, great conditions for my first golf outing in a year. Score... not so good. Saturday we joined up with friends of the family and headed out to Waterton National Park ( Parks Canada - Waterton Lakes National Park - Waterton Lakes National Park ) to hike the Bear's Hump trail. 45 minutes up the twisting path with uneven steps to reach the summit and great views out over Waterton and the lake and mountains. The climb up had us stepping over bear poo, and comments from descending hikers to watch out for the bear fu