We spent Sunday shopping, eating, watched a Planet Earth and FINALLY saw the new Batman. I'm interested in how others felt about Batman... Don't get me wrong, I loved it. It was great, exactly what I expected/wanted, etc... But was it worth all the hype?? Oscar worthy for Ledger?? (I say no, but I'm interested in hearing "yes" arguments, not that he wasn't brilliant in it, he was, but an Oscar???)
Anyway, on Monday we decided to head out of town for a hike. It was still supposed to rain in the Whistler area, so we decided to stay around Vancouver where the chance of rain was less. Remi had to head to a job site first thing in the morning (I was up before 7 on my day off!!!!), so we did that and then headed off to the hike by about 8:30 or so. After wasting an hour trying to find Dewdney Trunk Rd (we found Old Dewdney Trunk Rd, which was found at the turn-off location mentioned in our guide book AND was the only Dewdney Trunk Rd on our map, so we assumed it was the same thing - don't do that in BC; it wasn't!!), we made the trailhead by 10:30 or so I believe. Then we discovered that the trunk latch was broken - AGAIN. It took Remi about an hour to jury rig it so that it looked closed from the outside so we wouldn't get robbed (which was actually quite a necessary thing because as we returned to the car, we found some riffraff digging through a pile of garbage dumped there looking for copper wire or whatever), then we hit the trail. I mention all these delays because they become very important later in helping to determine the outcome (success) of our summit of Mt. Crickmer.
It was a relatively uninteresting trail to be honest, but at least we were outside. I will continue my story with photos.
This photo is interesting for two reasons. Firstly, notice Remi's new backpack. He starts school on Tuesday so we couldn't have him showing up with a backpack from 1996 ;) Secondly, notice the giant cloud in the background ;)
This was one of the views. It was pretty much the only view we got. After seeing a giant glacier the week before this was just meh ;)
We found the scene of this distruction on another delay to the summit... I read the book wrong and instead of reading "don't take JV Rd" I read it as "TAKE JV Rd". Needless to say, I was no longer in charge of directions (Remi should know better by now anyway!!). This was down a deactivated logging road. Sad isn't it? Think about this the next time you throw paper in the garbage can instead of recycling!!!
We stopped for lunch near a bridge. Apparently this was in a box canyon, but we didn't even take picture so it must not have been that interesting. Nice waterfall though (which I also didn't take a picture of).
Off we go! Compared to most of the trails we do, this was a super-highway. We could actually walk side-by-side! And the sun was still out... For now!
And then the rain came...
And continued. It was, to use a Sarah-ism, torentiating (defintion: a torential downpour). Then it started to hail, THEN it started to thunder. We decided to get the heck off the side of a mountain at that point ;)
About 15 minutes later, it cleared up! I'd say we should have known that it would, as weather in the mountains can often be transient, but that is not always the case. Better safe than struck by lightening ;) Anyway, had we not been delayed several times (recall Dewdney Trunk Rd, the trunk latch debauchle and my shoddy directions), we totally would have made the summit before this rain set in. We figure we were no more than an hour from the peak when we were forced to turn around. Boourns!
On the way out Remi decided to look for fossils. He's still sore from my sweet fossil find from 3 years ago at Ammonite Falls on Vancouver Island. I don't have a picture of it, but it is a complete snail shell fossil. Very cool. Unfortunately, as Remi told me about eight or nine times in the span of 5 minutes, this isn't the kind of rock you find fossils in.
So that was our stay at home weekend. How do people do this every weekend!!?? We're heading for that area in Whistler (Brandywine Falls) tomorrow that we were supposed to camp at last weekend for a hike and Remi's out doing Mt. Brunswick today - the last couple hikes of a fantastic summer!
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Sarah
1 comment:
Great story, looks like you still managed to have a good time. and I want to see this fossil.
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