I've been in Smithers for the past few days for my niece, Michelle's wedding to Phill. I came with Jocelyn (she still flies for free!) and just for the weekend. Sid and Holly were here too and Sid suggested that if the weather cooperated, we should do a hike while we were here. Friday morning turned out to be a beautiful day so off we went. Mom volunteered to watch the 3 kids for the day and Jason and Andrea also joined us.The most popular hike around here is probably "the Onion" but that one probably would have taken us a little too long. So, Sid did some research and came up with
Astlais Mountain, a mountain beside the Onion and still part of the same mountain range.
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| Andrea, myself and Holly - looking for bears! We actually saw in insane amount of very fresh bear poop along the trail but we figured we were making enough noise with 5 of us to scare them all away! |
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| This is where we were headed. |
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| Sid and Holly |
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| Me and Sid |
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| Andrea and Jason on the summit! |
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| A beautiful view through the trees on our way up. |
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| A view overlooking the whole valley on our way down. |
It turned out to be quite a difficult hike - pretty much just walking uphill for 2 1/2 hours to get to the top. However, the views from the summit were incredible. I was quite bummed that I fogot my camera. Both of the cameras that we did take were having issues so I don't think these pictures even begin to do justice to the views. It was a great day with great people! I'll even do it again next year!
1 comment:
It was awesome! I loved hanging with you and Jocelyn this week. Looking forward to the next hike and adventure.
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