My decision to buy an Audi Quattro really paid off over the weekend. We enjoyed a glorious drive from the ghost town of Nordegg down through the mountains to Canmore, it started in bright sunshine & mild temperatures & ended in a raging snowstorm and roads nearly a foot deep in snow in places. There were no snow-ploughs in site and no other cars visible either for long stretches of half an hour or more, it was an exhilirating if not risky journey. The Audi 4WD though is a reliable Germanic beast, it stuck to the snow covered roads like glue & got us through to the safety of the ploughed highway beyond Lake Louise.
You can see the route here
During the drive we saw beautiful Long Horn Sheep & plenty of Elk & Deer - with no traffic around these animals were close to the road & pretty oblivious to our presence. It really was a wonderfully scenic drive & until the weather stung us at the end - quite relaxing.
On Saturday we spent the day up Sunshine Mounatin enjoying the powder with a large group of friends, followed by dinner & plenty of beers in The Grizzly Paw in Canmore - another really nice day.
Was a busy week last week, Edmonton on Thursday & Friday - I had the chance to explore Edmonton a bit on Thursday night & despite the fact that it was a cold, January night I liked what i saw, especially the Strathcona district.
This week looks even busier - in fact it's a 6 day week, as we have some work planned on Saturday. It's not all work & no play though as it's indoor football on Wednesday night again, i'm at the Photography club on Tuesday & we'll fit in some X-Country ski-ing too, with our newly bought kit!
Another quick link to a band I'm liking at the moment, after linking to Britain's premier Medieaval Folk Rockers - Circulus last week, I'm urging you to check out their mates The Eighteenth Day of May. It's more of the same really, punk rock came along in '76 & blew all this hippy dippy stuff away, but i welcome it back in 2006 - we've had it up to our eyeballs recently with fake & manufactured punk for the kids - time for the lute, recorder & rag tag bands of hippies to reclaim what the Ramones etc destroyed in the Seventies!
The Eighteenth Day of May
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