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| On the way to Fort Nelson, BC |
Shitty turkey sandwich at a truck stop: $7.78
SKYPE phone call for reinforcement: 36 cents
Overnight Shipping charges: $58
Taking pictures of two stone sheep bumping nasties: Priceless
My G-rated blog just got upgraded to PG-13.
It is best to use your own imagination for all the priceless photos I will not get to take. My camera ran out of juice and I lost the battery charger somewhere between Dawson Creek and Fort Nelson in northern British Columbia. It’s not like you could just walk in a Radio Shack and pick up a charger for the Canon Powershot, like you would in Seattle. There is no such store here. We are in the middle of nowhere. Literally. Well, reinforcement is on its way, but “overnight” mail likely means five days.
If that is the biggest problem, I am a lucky gal. People did just fine without a camera for decades. I have done some sketching along the way, and journaling what I have seen. Now I rely on my brain instead of modern technology to remember what I saw.
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| The Canadian Rockies |
I have never seen the Canadian Rockies. The mountains are huge. So big. So magnificent. So open. The air is clean and crisp. If more people see these wonders of the world, will they appreciate Mother Nature just a little more? Or will Mother Nature be treated just as poorly as she has been in the last hundred and fifty years or so, since the discovery of oil? We can never go back, no. How we move forward as a species is entirely up to us.
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| Summit Lake, highest point of ALCAN Stone Mountain Provincial Park, BC |
The Rockies are famous for their summer downpours, and we have experienced our share. The weather turned from sunny one minute to a sudden squall, then warm and beautiful again all within twenty minutes. We passed the lowest point of the Alaska Highway, the Muskwa River, at 1,000 feet elevation, while entering Fort Nelson. Two hours later, we were camping at the highest point of the Highway, Summit Lake, at Stone Mountain Provincial Park - 4,250 feet elevation.
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| Taking a hike up the summit at Summit Lake |
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| Stone Sheep eating something - perhaps pebbles - in the middle of the highway |
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| Bear Necessities: Berries... |
A moose was grazing; herds of stone sheep hanging out, posing for tourists through the limestone gorge. Stone sheep are indigenous to the mountains of northern British Columbia and southern Yukon Territory. They are often mistaken for mountain goats, which are not found in this area. Bear warning shots were fired by the ranger at the Liard Hot Spring, where I soaked and rid of all my trouble…
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| Buffalo - these magnificent animals used to roam the great north |
Camera or not, it will be just fine.
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