A gorgeous view of the power of orogenic processes. This mountain was once flat and was of sedimentary origin; millions of years and countless energy later the flat bedded planes became folded and contorted, as seen in this picture. It was hard to drive through the rockies and not take a picture of each sub-range, or each mountain because of the amazing views, almost dissected views of mountains, that effortlessly show clues to mountain formation. Endless wonder, endless....
Jasper, AB. Lunch, hummus and spinach. Sun, blazingly hot and piqued. Travellers, hungry and saturated with joy.
This is the climatic event of the trip...a very important event. Its mathematics really - one hawk, one car, one feeble bike rim, one collision. Hawk meets bike affixed to moving object, impact doubled. Hawk serves as unwilling device for bending bike rim. It all happened in a moments time. I have no idea how the Hawk hit us, the bike really, as it came form the side, swooping down for lunch most probably. It made no decision to hit the bike, and I am so very regretfull and hurt that a living creature died. Guilt filled me for some time, and still does in retrospect, and although it is of no fault of anyones it is a sober reminder of how much impact humans and technology have imparted. In the end, there was a dead bird and a dead rim. I would have given up the whole bike to save the little free spirited hawk, but alas there is nothing to remedy the situation. IT is what it is.
The bike now lives, but the memory lives stronger.
Jasper, AB. Beauty that cannot be confined to a cameras view. Endless beauty...
One of the last stops before we made it to Prince George. A beer on the roadside and a short lie in the sun as the minutes went by and the moments cherished...
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