Sunshine on a Cloudy Day
Trip Start
Feb 16, 2011
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Trip End
Jun 11, 2012
Sunshine Village, Alberta, Canada
Monday, July 11, 2011
Buzzing, we started our hike from the ski house up the short but steep hill. Within 15 minutes we were standing in an alpine meadow with patches of snow, squirrels and alpine anemone flowers around us. Continuing along we paused at the continental divide plaque which marked the border between Alberta and British Columbia and also the point where the watershed divides between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Next we walked down to the Rock Isle Lake which is usually frozen most of the year and around the back so we could see the mountain range which framed the background.
It was an easy hike, but we were tempted by the lure of a hamburger so we trudged back to base. There are many different hikes that you can do up at Sunshine and that was the shortest so I would love to come back and even try the 29km hike to Mount Assiniboine (the Matterhorn of the Canadian Rockies). On the ride back, we saw a black bear cross the road and run off. Unlike the Grizzlies, he wasn’t interested in being photographed!
