Today has been a little bit of an off day. We are still in East Glacier, at Brownies enjoying the amenities of being in town. The Two Medicine Lake part of the park is about 10 miles up the road. We did a short hike Aster Falls and then up about 1000 feet to Aster Lookout which got us up high enough to get views back down the lake and the surrounding mountains. Enough of a climb to wake up the calves that were destroyed on the Loop hike but not enough to cripple me, like yesterday.
Last night was a tough evening as a good round of delayed-onset-muscle-syndrome hit hard. It may have been Brownies uneven floors and sandaled feet requiring extra work by the calf muscles for balance and stability but I was a hurtin' puppy trying to walk around the building. We also had some folks who had a little bit of a party going on until 1 AM. Not anything serious but enough loud talking and movement that kept tripping the motion detector so that light shown in our room making thing annoying. We took our time (our legs made us take time) avoiding the morning rush of folks who had to be moving and grooving out of the hostel.
It was a fine hike, short enough to get in one more round of laundry, a dinner out and hopefully a better night's sleep. We leave for Waterton tomorrow, but we have a reserved campsite in the main townsite campground. Oh, Canada!
I did splurge on a new Tilly hat today. Too much money, I already have a similar hat that would do the job, but the Tilly does look better and will work for fly fishing and for keeping sun and rain off my face and neck. For hiking I never realized that they have a chin string tucked up inside. Besides, they float. I of course blame this extravagance on Hammertsrom who with his stern doctor voice (as stern as a lurpy kid from Pittsburgh can muster) admonished us to do a better job of protecting our skin from the sun especially when being outdoors.
First some photos for my portfolio for admission to the Babinski school of photography:
And now some pictures from the hike -
Last night was a tough evening as a good round of delayed-onset-muscle-syndrome hit hard. It may have been Brownies uneven floors and sandaled feet requiring extra work by the calf muscles for balance and stability but I was a hurtin' puppy trying to walk around the building. We also had some folks who had a little bit of a party going on until 1 AM. Not anything serious but enough loud talking and movement that kept tripping the motion detector so that light shown in our room making thing annoying. We took our time (our legs made us take time) avoiding the morning rush of folks who had to be moving and grooving out of the hostel.
It was a fine hike, short enough to get in one more round of laundry, a dinner out and hopefully a better night's sleep. We leave for Waterton tomorrow, but we have a reserved campsite in the main townsite campground. Oh, Canada!
I did splurge on a new Tilly hat today. Too much money, I already have a similar hat that would do the job, but the Tilly does look better and will work for fly fishing and for keeping sun and rain off my face and neck. For hiking I never realized that they have a chin string tucked up inside. Besides, they float. I of course blame this extravagance on Hammertsrom who with his stern doctor voice (as stern as a lurpy kid from Pittsburgh can muster) admonished us to do a better job of protecting our skin from the sun especially when being outdoors.
First some photos for my portfolio for admission to the Babinski school of photography:
And now some pictures from the hike -
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