A FOOL

        A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts in either one of them.

                                                                                         P.J. O'Rourke

          I like this as it has a lot of truth in it

ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIKES

Stream coming from snow above us.

Venturer scouts hiking from Sunshine village to Mt Assiniboine which is one of the highest peaks in the Rockies

        I recently wrote   about students on a bus trip. I intend to wrote about their out door ed. experience  once I get some photos.

            Instead I'll write about some of the scenery that we have for hiking.

              The Rocky Mountains are roughly 100 miles from here. The Rockies are a range on the eastern side of  the mountains of north America. The Rockies are not a giant range of mountains. Very few of them are more than 10000 feet. However they are beautiful with colors shapes and snow.

       I  was fortunate enough to go on some back packing trips with friends. Very few areas actually required climbing. Mostly we  followed trails until we reached a peak.

      In one area we drove by what we thought was a peak. We looked at it for several years and finally said lets walk up there. We got up only to find that it was the end of a ridge.  We had to scramble up the las 300 ft of altitude. The ridge carried on for several miles. A gust of wind caused us to flatten out on the ridge as it was very narrow and we could have been blown off.

    So we took the kids up Whirlpool Point Ridge many times. This was our name for the area.

    So here we are in the beautiful Rockies looking at where we were going.

Cairn on top  of one of the peaks

Watching some mountain caribou

Posing on a peak

July seventh snow 

scrambling over  rocks

Nice lake below.

Cross over the bridge

Knowledge

      It's harder to conceal  ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

                                                    Arnold Glasgow

     Glasgow was an American humorist and business man.

MISSING IN ACTION

       For the last few days Mr. something or other has not let me sign into my blog or is it that Mr Something tried to get me to do something and I didn't catch on. 

      Anyway this is just a way to say that I didn't get to read all blog or make comments.

     I'm not sure what happened or what I did to get back into blogger.

DESMOND TUTU

       My father used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument.

                                                              Desmond Tutu

           I don't remember hearing anything about Desmond Tutu's father.

FRIENDS

               One friend in a life time is much, two are many, and three hardly possible.

                                                                                    Henry Adams

              Henry Adams was an American, writer, historian and commentator.

FRIENDS

     Close friends (make)the music sound sweeter , the wine taste richer, the laughing ring louder.

                                                                                           Judy Viorsy

                   Judy Viorsy was a newspaper reporter and wrote many books.