October 31, 2009 - Halloween Day Hike in Peterson Creek

Did a familiar hike through familiar territory. What made it nice was finally there was some sun after a week of some very dismal weather. It was also warm(ish) and we headed out with Lucy "pack leader extrodinaire". She does have a habit of wanting to go off trail, usually down a vertical embankment. She also gets quite worried if I go off without her. When I pulled out a bar to eat at the halfway point, she jumped up in glee almost knocking me over in the process. I made a mental note to bring some kibble with us next time. Like her human friends, walking makes her hungry.

If you look closesly you can see a tree growing sidways out of a rock on the other side.

The sun makes for some interesting shadows on the hills.

Pretty colours.

I did actually scale up beside this waterfall. It's alot steaper than it looks. No really, it is.

Nice sunny day when we started out. It did cloud over but I am happy to report the sun is out once again.

Part of the path we follow. Most places you don't want to go over the edge.

Kind of neat fluffy bushes. I think they are Sagebrush.

Took the picture of the tree to show how windy it was. But you can't really tell.

Looks like the earth has fallen away.

A view of the Thompson River winding its way through town.

October 25,2009 - Hike Kenna Cartwright

A not so nice day weather-wise, but the rain held off and we had a good hike up in the park, this time with our trusty dog Lucy. She loves the trails, and meeting other dogs and people along the way. It was quite cold and breezy and there was frost at the very top. I believe we hiked up to the highest point. It felt that way anyway. I believe Lucy is done for the day. Hot soup is slowly warming the hypothermic core body temperature of her human friends, me in particular.

As you can see a fairly dull day. Lots of clouds billowing about as well as smoke from the Mill. Thank god you can't smell it.

A shot of the airport down below. Look real hard, it is just beyond the river.

I thought we were up pretty hight at this point. But we turned around, went back down, then way, way up.

Lots of ups and downs to get to this point. I guess you would call them rolling hills.

You can see the trail we followed. It's hard to get the right perspective. But it was long and very steep in places.

The camera ran out of batteries so I could not take any pictures at the frosty top, but I am guessing that I will get that opportunity again as the days get colder and winter begins to settle in.

October 24, 2009 - Grasslands Mtn Bike

Took Lac Du Bois Road up to McQueen Lake and Isobel Lake. Rode the Mountain bikes because Lac Du Bois Road is gravel as are the roads leading up to the lakes. As always a nice ride, and really beautiful cycling around the lake.

Although it does look like night is falling, the picture was just taken when the sun was behind the clouds. That was McQueen Lake.


I love this picture. The cow is perfectly centered. He was only mildly interested in us.

Lac Du Bois Road. A bit of an uphill slog going but a nice quick ride coming back.

October 20, 2009 - Run/Bike Day

Today I had planned to try to do a longer bike ride, but when I got an email about going for a run I decided to do both, but make the bike ride shorter. I had expected the run to be in an area that was predominently flat, but no, let's try to run the new kid on the block into the ground. Actually everyone was very nice and yes, it was my fault to try to keep up with the faster kids, which I am sure I could have done if those damn hills hadn't gotten in the way. And yes, I should have turned around before we climbed over the gate and went ever further and higher. Needless to say when I arrived home I was much less cocky than I was when I started out that morning and completely whacked out. Let me see....the last time I ran was what...May? Throw in a few hills and you have one tired would-be runner. Out of some strange sense of duty, I decided to go for a bike ride after lunch, and after the dog walk, and yes more of those damn hills. I guess I am trying to explain the low mileage, but hey, I enjoyed it eventually. I rode up lots of hills a few times over because I didn't want to go through a section of town where they were cutting down this giant tree and had some of the road down to one lane. I turned around and re-did an area I had covered before deeking into some side-streets just to see what was going on down there. One had an elementary school on it and I realized it was going to get pretty busy once they released them . As there is more than one school in the area I figured I better head on home. Now I turned down a sidestreet because I had a text message and after I replied I checked out the area and I did pick up a flyer at a house that was for sale. Lovely, quiet street that backed onto Peterson Park. Yes I know it was over 600,000 dollars but some day I will be rich, right? Anyway my sunny day turned cloudy and I was feeling the cold after sweating up those damn hills. I took a few pictures, also out of a sense of duty, including one of a bush thing on the front lawn of the house we are renting. I like the colour. I am hoping to get I can still walk once I get up from posting this. Oh yeah and the dog needs another walk....more hills. Wish me luck.

In case it's not clear, the mileage is 16.727. There, I said it.

The day kind of clouded over and it's not the greatest shot, but it's really the only one I took.

Love the colour.

October 19, 2009 - Rainbow

If you look real hard you can see the rainbow. This pic was taken out my front window. Sunny on my street, was surprised to see the black cloud and subsquent rainbow. I was able to take a better one below. It's too bad you can't really see the colours.

October 18, 2009 - Peterson Creek Hike

Went for a hike as the weather was not too bad and actually cleared up quite a bit while we were out. Once again technology failed me with a dead camera battery but I did manage to get a few pictures in. Nice walk, and after my long walk in the morning with Lucy I can feel my legs protesting a little bit. A few people were out with their dogs or solo. It was just a great temperature for hiking, the air was fresh and we did not run into any bears or coyotes. It is sure looking like Fall though.

October 15, 2009 - Road Bike 22kms

Took the bike on some now familiar roads, and a few new ones. Kind of a real estate tour. There are some very large houses in Kamloops. The higher you go, the bigger they are. My stats for today once again are something to get used to. At least it cleared my head and gave me some Vitamin D.

The street above is called Shaunessey Hill. I wonder why.

Not sure if you can tell but there is a road winding up the hill, kind of in the middle of the house and the tree, in the distance.

This road I biked down, and all the way up again because the road that it led to was under construction and the surface was loose gravel.

Not yet quite done going up the hill, but stopped to take a picture cause I thought it was a cool view.

I was actually trying to show the mountains in the distance and not the house. But I have a nice picture of someone's home if they ever want to sell. Maybe I should get into Real Estate photography.

October 12, 2009 - Road bike 18kms

Took the road bike out for a bit of a ride. Lovely sunny but cold day. Some fast downhills and lots of slogs uphill but because my camera battery died I have no pictures (except the one above) so I am posting some from yesterday. I was once again surprised where the roads led me. Being directionally challenged I may never figure them out. I think I had a smile on my face all the way home. There is nothing like a good bike ride.

Picture yesterday from where we hiked in the Lac Du Bois Grasslands park. The scene above went on forever.


It's almost like you are on top of the world, or maybe even the edge.

I have never seen so much sky.

This was about where we turned around. We tried to drive to a lookout, but had no success finding it. I think our car was happy we turned around.

Washboard road made for a bumpy ride, but the sky could not have been more blue.