We made it there and back! We have also showered and fed ourselves.
Some stats while I finish writing up today's adventures, catching up the blog, and sorting and adding photos to the posts...
km's biked: 688+ (I didn't track the ride/adventure in Canmore of getting to Grassi Lakes, and there were a few times I forgot to re-start my watch tracking our ride for a bit)
Elevation Gained on bike: 5605m+ (again, forgot to turn the watch tracking on a couple of times until part-way into a climb)
Mountain Passes crossed: 2 (Sunwapta Pass and Bow Pass; then Bow Pass and Sunwapta Pass again)
Watersheds peed in: 3: Athabasca, North Saskatchewan, and Bow Rivers
Major aquatic bodies fed by these watersheds: 2 (Arctic Ocean, and Hudson Bay)
Rock climbing areas visited: 3 (Kerkeslin, Rampart Creek, Grassi Lakes)
Rock climbing areas search for and not found: 1 (Beauty Creek)
Rock climbing routes completed: 3
Days climbing called on account of weather: 1
Number of hikes completed: 7 (Kerkeslin Access, Beauty Creek, Mistaya Canyon, Helen Lake, Grassi Lakes, Johnston Canyon, Parker Ridge)
Live Megafauna seen: 21 (elk:1 herd in Banff, plus one solo elk on the Bow Valley parkway; 1 herd of sheep downhill from Mistaya Canyon)
Piles of bear scat seen on the road: 2 (one in the middle of the oncoming traffic lane; 1 in the bike lane)
Live Mediumfauna seen: Countless ground squirrels; 1 very large marmot
Dead fauna seen: 2 porcupine, 1 very bloated deer, several squirrels that weren't fast enough, 1 adrenaline junkie songbird
Banana peels seen: Countless. So many banana peels.
Lost items recovered: 2 (Kobo, at the HI in Jasper; trailer flag at the cattle guard in Lake Louise)
Photos Chris took: 599
Chapters of The Lost World read before misplacing the Kobo: 4
Most numerous cans seen on the side of the road: A tossup between Red Bull and Lucky Lager.
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