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Posts from ‘August, 2006’

7 km hike with full packs and a coyote…

It was raining very hard again today so we put on our wetskins and packs and hiked the trails anyway. Very muddy and impossibly slippery bentonite clay hills so we were glad we brought our ski poles for balance. I was in the lead and up ahead a coyote appeared around a bend [...]

Canoe believe it?

Ok, so it is a veerrry bad pun. But yesterday we went on a 6 hour canoe trip from the Genesee Bridge on HWY 770 to the Devon bridge on HWY 60. We didn’t paddle all that hard since we were just drifting down river, but we had a lot of fun anyway. [...]

Starburst 6th Annual Run for Girls…

There is a community fun run/walk Sept. 10th in Calgary on behalf of an organization which is called Starburst. Currently my daughter is coordinating Starburst activities. Starburst assists young high school aged women who face difficulties. The run/walk is for 5 km and 10 km and is not a timed event, just [...]