East off of the Smith Dorrien / Spray Trail, the trail head is 38 km S of Canmore and the hike has a vertical of 375M (1230 ft) with a return distance of approx 8.6km (9:15 start; finished at 3:00). This was a hike with the Canmore Meanderthol group. This day hike for both of us meant meeting some people for the first time, and reacquainting with others that we met on a previous hike. In Canmore, it seems that most people have come here from elsewhere, so meeting people is relatively easy and certainly easier than we thought it would be. The hiking group affords great opportunity to talk with people during the trek, and changing position during the hike means the opportunity to talk with someone else. Conversations tend to cover a wide variety of topics, and may include anywhere from 2 to 4 people depending on the subject and physical effort of the hike. Today was of moderate temperature with good weather; a cool wind at the lake meant putting on a coat while there); this was a relatively gentle climb and the hike was very pleasant. Two very nice views; one being partway up, with a view of Spray Lakes and the valley (see pic), and the other at Rummel Lake (see pic). While we had the opportunity to hike further up to the ridge to a couple more smaller lakes, that would have added another 2 or so hours to the day, so we decided that the Lake would be our turnaround point, as it was for about 13 others that were on our hike. We've signed up for next week to hike to C Level mineshaft entrance located on the eastern lower slopes of Cascade Mountain and above the abandoned town of Bankhead (near Lake Minnewanka).
Larry and Violet (David's cousin -- of which he has but very few) will be visiting this weekend from Ontario (they'll be travelling from the interior of BC) -- our 'first official' visitors. Looking forward to sharing our new home with them.
We're in the process of switching our licenses/car registration over to Alberta. It strikes me strange that a utility bill can be used to satisfy the proof of residency requirement in order to obtain a driver's license -- all rules don't need to make complete sense, but they support a base of thinking that we needed to understand to achieve our end goals!!! New tires going on the motorcycle to complete certification. Hope to have our vehicles registration, licenses and Alberta Health Care applications taken care of tomorrow morning -- more 'off of the to do list'.
That's it for now.
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