My bride and I took one of our favorite trips to Alberta about 10 years ago. Flew into Calgary and spent a night. Then drove around Alberta, stopping and hiking around Banff and Lake Louise. Great weather[August], incredible scenery, good food and people. Damn shame what's happening there. But, elect a pretty boy, French Canadian socialist PM and shit like this happens.
The West is incomparably grander than the East. I'm talking about the Western United States and Canada as opposed to the Eastern United States and Canada; I'm not talking about West Bangladesh versus East Bangladesh ha ha ha ha ha.
Lem, Lake Louise is post card beautiful. The water is turquoise from the glacier. We ran into a mamma black bear and 2 cubs while hiking around the lake. My bride saw the cubs, I saw an agitated mamma. We backed away.
It's weird for the forest to burn itself out like that. I thought. It must be the only instance of nature building itself up exquisitely then wiping it all out. Can I think of another instance? [elapsed time= 0] Sure. Landslide. Avalanche. Tsunami. Any great storm. Tornado. Eruptions. Earthquakes. Lightening a chief instrument of destruction.
It IS a bummer. Deusterberg, he too has been shoveled under and turned over, an old man then, drove his jeep up the environs of Aspen in the direction of Ajax and stopped at the burned area in back. He got out of the jeep and engaged the 4-wheel drive. I thought he might be near tears describing the early progress of regrowth. I wasn't interested. It's ugly. He went on and on. It was extensive but on one side, the next thing we're bouncing over hill and somehow that was fun. That was supposed to be fun. That there is whatchacall fun here in Colorado. Having a gnarly ride over bumpy hills without proper actual roads. The whole time I was thinking, You're a bit old for this aren't you? The picture just now cleared to a very clear foggy picture maybe I was hungover that day maybe there was actual fog.
Then just last summer driving across Laborious Pass, that's the joke name for it, and back over Loveland pass [photos available] Joe noticed the beetle damaged pines, apparent in patches once you notice. Joe went on and on about, pointing out areas where abatement measures are taken, trees removed and new ones sprung up. Another example of nature chewing itself up wholesale without any sentiment to it.
Let this be a lesson.
Of some kind, I don't know. It's horrible. Oh the humanity, etc., I too feel the pain that nature itself does not feel. Except. If there is any feeling to it to be found in nature, it just may be in us. Our responsibility. We do the feeling for all Nature, and only us ... I got nuthin.
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The AT passes through our county. We are currently overrun with hikers.
Hard to choose. Alberta maybe.
I choose Alberta. The open skies. Large vistas. Being in a dark dank forest is not my thing. I want to see for miles and miles.
My bride and I took one of our favorite trips to Alberta about 10 years ago. Flew into Calgary and spent a night. Then drove around Alberta, stopping and hiking around Banff and Lake Louise. Great weather[August], incredible scenery, good food and people. Damn shame what's happening there. But, elect a pretty boy, French Canadian socialist PM and shit like this happens.
Oh Canada, for sure.
I much prefer eastern mixed hardwood forests. But then again, I don't have to do anything other than walk out my door to be in them.
The West is incomparably grander than the East. I'm talking about the Western United States and Canada as opposed to the Eastern United States and Canada; I'm not talking about West Bangladesh versus East Bangladesh ha ha ha ha ha.
The one is an up close picture so who knows what is just out of view. There are probably some pretty green glades in Alberta, too.
That water looks so invitingly pristine.
Lem, Lake Louise is post card beautiful. The water is turquoise from the glacier. We ran into a mamma black bear and 2 cubs while hiking around the lake. My bride saw the cubs, I saw an agitated mamma. We backed away.
That kind of cool, damp foggy weather is great for moody photos, I guess, but it sucks to hike in, and it really sucks to camp in.
I wonder where in Virginia that is.
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
It's weird for the forest to burn itself out like that. I thought. It must be the only instance of nature building itself up exquisitely then wiping it all out. Can I think of another instance? [elapsed time= 0] Sure. Landslide. Avalanche. Tsunami. Any great storm. Tornado. Eruptions. Earthquakes. Lightening a chief instrument of destruction.
It IS a bummer. Deusterberg, he too has been shoveled under and turned over, an old man then, drove his jeep up the environs of Aspen in the direction of Ajax and stopped at the burned area in back. He got out of the jeep and engaged the 4-wheel drive. I thought he might be near tears describing the early progress of regrowth. I wasn't interested. It's ugly. He went on and on. It was extensive but on one side, the next thing we're bouncing over hill and somehow that was fun. That was supposed to be fun. That there is whatchacall fun here in Colorado. Having a gnarly ride over bumpy hills without proper actual roads. The whole time I was thinking, You're a bit old for this aren't you? The picture just now cleared to a very clear foggy picture maybe I was hungover that day maybe there was actual fog.
Then just last summer driving across Laborious Pass, that's the joke name for it, and back over Loveland pass [photos available] Joe noticed the beetle damaged pines, apparent in patches once you notice. Joe went on and on about, pointing out areas where abatement measures are taken, trees removed and new ones sprung up. Another example of nature chewing itself up wholesale without any sentiment to it.
Let this be a lesson.
Of some kind, I don't know. It's horrible. Oh the humanity, etc., I too feel the pain that nature itself does not feel. Except. If there is any feeling to it to be found in nature, it just may be in us. Our responsibility. We do the feeling for all Nature, and only us ... I got nuthin.
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