this weekends adventures

minks · Post by **minks** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 7:45 pm

Jr Minks and I headed to BC for 4 days of biking and hiking and white water rafting

these first pictures are of Sinclair Creek on the west side of the town of Radium, the river slowly turned into those facinating wetlands where the lilypads floated all over the surface of the creek.

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minks · Post by **minks** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 7:50 pm

On the east side of town you approached Radium through Sinclair Canyon/Pass and these are some of the creek, pass and gorge

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minks · Post by **minks** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 7:54 pm

Here is more of Sinclair Cr on the east side the cliff side from the hiway up, another shot of the gorge, and the creek up close

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Lulu2 · Post by **Lulu2** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 8:01 pm

OHHHHHHHHHH! I want to go there! Are there more photos, Minxie?

minks · Post by **minks** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 8:01 pm

We headed south to Fairmont and these are a few shots of "Hoodoos" these strange rock formations are just caused by the wind and rivulets when the rain falls. Oh and deer.

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minks · Post by **minks** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 8:02 pm

Lulu2 wrote: OHHHHHHHHHH! I want to go there! Are there more photos, Minxie?

you bet I am loading them as fast as I can

minks · Post by **minks** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 8:05 pm

first pic is a road side stop where we had a picnic lunch, that is my car and our bikes

our next and final stop is the town of Golden, and our hotel, and a shot from our hotel over the smoke filled valley, this smoke was a result of the fires burning in Washington State.

Last pic here is the Kickinghorse River, this is the jump off point at the end of our Raft trip. It was beautiful to come upon from the River, I have raft pics to come likely next week, I have to wait for them to be mailed to me.

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minks · Post by **minks** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 8:07 pm

I did not take my camera on the trip as I had no water proof case so could only take a couple shots of the boats themselves these ones are like ours but not exact ours were bright red

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minks · Post by **minks** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 8:14 pm

a few straggler pics

all of these were taken in about a 150km radius in the lovely province of British Columbia

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ZAP · Post by **ZAP** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 8:36 pm

Absolutely GORGEOUS Minks!

minks · Post by **minks** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 8:38 pm

aw thanks all

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 10:07 pm

Definatly some beautiful shots. Now I really wanna go to Canada to see all this for myself. I'm glad you and jr. had so much fun. I bet it was great fun and some mom/daughter bonding time. :-6

Can't wait for the rafting photos.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 4:11 am

Oh Minks, these are gorgeous shots! What abeautiful place to visit! The white water looks like it was lots of fun!

I really liked the photos of hoodoo's! And the canyon, you could have been rafting through The Lord of the Rings scenery!

minks · Post by **minks** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 7:22 am

Diuretic wrote: Beautiful BC.

I see in one of your pics Minks it looks like they're selling "estate lots". It would be a shame to see that lovely wilderness under housing but I suppose people have to live somewhere.....

Yep Di it breaks my heart as well. The sad thing is the majority of the land out there is Indian Reservation sooooooo they have become quite interested in selling off parcels of their land, very little of it is National Park

sad sad sad, as well there is many golf courses through that Valley as well.

sunny104 · Post by **sunny104** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 7:22 am

beautiful pics!!! :-6

I just have to visit someday.....

minks · Post by **minks** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 7:27 am

www.alpinerafting.com

http://www.britishcolumbia.com/regions/ ... ownID=3711

Here you go a shameless plug or 2, the first link is the rafting company, their video gives you a good preview of what we experienced

Second it an overall view of the entire valley in which we spend many hours in ever year.

CheshireCat · Post by **CheshireCat** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 8:51 am

Beautiful! It sounds like a wonderful weekend.! :-6

minks · Post by **minks** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 9:42 am

CheshireCat wrote: Beautiful! It sounds like a wonderful weekend.! :-6

worth the 3 hour drive indeed.

minks · Post by **minks** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 12:43 pm

Ok Bump For OM

OpenMind · Post by **OpenMind** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 4:08 pm

Someone's gonna have to tell me how these bumps work.:-2 I'm a classic idiot so use plain simple pictures, ok?