We spent a lovely few days with our friends Phil and Mary-Lin in Squamish. There was good coffee, eating, swimming and biking. So sweet!
We then went to Vancouver to see our friends Holly and Alex, and to see Luke's brother Andrew who just moved to Vancouver a month before. We did the grouse grind with Andrew (and watched some of the horribly cheesy lumberjack show at the top), and Holly is always up for some difficult biking with Luke.
After a great couple of weeks in BC, we headed back down to the Bellingham WA area. We made a trip out to Anacortes, Levenworth, and the Mt.Baker area too. As I had mentioned, Luke's bike frame had cracked and we had to wait for the replacement frame to show up.
Here's a cute moment from our trip out to Mt.Baker. We were having breakfast at a little picnic area and I found this little mouse trapped in the bathroom.
It must have been in there for a while because it was very hungry and very lethargic. The very first thing it did was jam an old spider web in its mouth, and then proceeded to eat and eat and eat everything else it saw. It got progressively more spunky and eventually it was energetic enough to hop away into the woods.
Here's the view from the river right next to the picnic area. I wasn't able to capture the vibrant blue of the glacier water (I need more lessons from Luke it seems).
Luke's frame came just in time for us to meet up with our friend Ed, who brought his family along this time too! They did a big road trip of Canada and the US this summer and we were lucky to spent a couple of weeks with them.
We started in the Port Angeles area of the Olympic Peninsula, then headed over to Duthie (which was a huge success because Duthie is the best!). We then went down to Hood River and Bend Oregon, and ended the trip with Sun Valley Idaho. The last two times we went to Sun Valley we were pretty much rained out, so it was nice to actually spent some time on the trails this time. Luke even found some gold in a river!
We went to a great area just outside of Sisters Oregon that had....LAVA! It was the Dee Wright Observatory, where they made a little building out of lava rocks a bunch of decades ago. Here it is, with the moon still in the sky:
I learned a lot about A A Lava, thanks to the plaques along an info trail that was made. This is a kipuka, the little islands of tree that were spared during the most recent lava flows.
Are our bikes going for a ride without us? Har har!
The observatory had these neat little windows which identified the volcano you could see as you peaked through.
Here are some more snowy volcanos, along with the A A.
We're now in Jackson and Driggs WY. We were rained out the last time we were here too, so we're doing unfinished business. The traffic and amount of tourists is pretty horrible in Jackson, since it's so close to Yellowstone. I would hate to see how busy the park is right now. Luckily things get much less crowded once you leave Jackson.
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