8r4d-stagram

The footage is not spectacular but in the moment I was more concerned with safety. We were 12km into the backcountry here, camping for 3 nights and this was a few minutes from camp. This black #bear had been hanging around and even came into camp once while we were there. A little surreal. #hike #wildlife

Monday the 12th of August, 2024, during morning coffee.

8r4d
Ribbon Lake | 1½ years ago

❮ ❯

8r4d We saw so much #wildlife on our #hike it almost got a little too much. Up close and personal with a bunch of small critters was fine, but we did encounter a bear on the trail at a distance of less than 25m and had to use our bear smarts to deal with that.

Monday the 12th of August, 2024, during morning coffee.

8r4d
Ribbon Lake | 1½ years ago

❮ ❯

8r4d Day three recap part 2. Then it rained for a while and there wasn’t much to do besides hide out in the tent to read and nap. #hike #rain

Monday the 12th of August, 2024, during morning coffee.

8r4d
Ribbon Lake | 1½ years ago

❮ ❯

8r4d Day three recap part 1. After two long days of hiking we took a rest day and hung out closer to camp. #hike

Monday the 12th of August, 2024, during morning coffee.

8r4d
Guinn’s Pass | 1½ years ago

❮ ❯

8r4d Day two recap, part 2. A long day #hike up the pass and onto the peak was a preview for our way home a few days later. It was a slog up to the top of the pass but the views were fantastic.

Sunday the 11th of August, 2024, well after bedtime.

8r4d
Ribbon Falls | 1½ years ago

❮ ❯

8r4d Day two recap, part 1. The only place on the mountain with both great views and a cell phone signal was on top of the falls. #hike

Sunday the 11th of August, 2024, posted at bedtime.

8r4d
Ribbon Lake | 1½ years ago

❮ ❯

8r4d Day one recap, part 3. We set up camp at the far end of the lake—our home base for the next 3 nights. #hike

Sunday the 11th of August, 2024, in the evening.

8r4d
Ribbon Creek | 1½ years ago

❮ ❯

8r4d Day one recap, part 2. The headwall involved free climbing with our heavy packs up a cliff face with rebar ladder rungs stuck in the rock. #hike

Sunday the 11th of August, 2024, in the evening.

8r4d
Ribbon Creek | 1½ years ago

❮ ❯

8r4d Day one recap, part 1. The first leg up to the falls was tough but not too bad. #hike

Sunday the 11th of August, 2024, in the evening.

8r4d
Sentry Games | 1½ years ago

❮ ❯

8r4d The worlds largest game store? We may have spent some money and bought a new #boardgame this evening.

➚ Hotel Lobbies and Late Night Gaming on Shades of Game

Wednesday the 7th of August, 2024, during prime time.

8r4d
Calgary Farmers Market | 1½ years ago

❮ ❯

8r4d Staging up for our hike and warming up the legs by walking around the market pondering all the #food that’s way too heavy to carry up a mountain.

Wednesday the 7th of August, 2024, in the late afternoon.

8r4d
Heritage Festival | 1½ years ago

❮ ❯

8r4d Disaster! So the third day of the #heritagefestival ended up cancelled because a storm hit the site Sunday night and wrecked enough infrastructure—water, power, tents—that it was unsafe for the public. The city was in shock. This rarely happens. In fact I don’t ever remember a cancellation (except during the pandemic.) It was waiting on pins and needles all day to find out how we fared. But alas our crew finally got access late afternoon and tho the damage was minimal on our site, we still had our work cut out cleaning and tearing down the kitchen to wrap up for another year. #volunteering

Monday the 5th of August, 2024, posted before bed.

8r4d
Training Day | 1½ years ago

❮ ❯

8r4d Despite being on my feet all day yesterday I still owed the #running gods a long run this morning. Only two weeks until the #halfmarathon so luckily the #rivervalley was still cool.

Sunday the 4th of August, 2024, in the late morning.

8r4d
Heritage Festival | 1½ years ago

❮ ❯

8r4d Day one of #heritagefestival 2024 and between cooking lots of #crepes managing an outdoor kitchen in the #summer #heat and helping with my share of problem solving, I’m definitely ready for a cozy sleep tonight.

Saturday the 3rd of August, 2024, posted at bedtime.

8r4d
Buck Lake | 1½ years ago

❮ ❯

8r4d The ‘nlaws have a little permanent #camping site out at a little lake in the middle of nowheres alberta and so we drove out for a Friday dinner and a visit

Friday the 2nd of August, 2024, posted before bed.

8r4d
Cameron Heights Out and Back | 1½ years ago

❮ ❯

8r4d As much as my life should be full of free time, I still find myself needing to squeeze in #running training when I can, so a Friday morning 14k brought my through a couple big #rivervalley #hills with some nice sunny views of the valley and distant skyline.

Friday the 2nd of August, 2024, in the late morning.

8r4d
Backyard | 1½ years ago

8r4d Kinda just a porcupine sleeping on our neighbourhood fence.

Thursday the 1st of August, 2024, posted before bed.

8r4d
Northlands-ish | 1½ years ago

8r4d August #longweekend approaches and with it the annual #heritagefestival where I’ve been #volunteering for nearly a decade making #crepes for the French pavilion. But you’re not French, you reply. Yeah, but my neighbours run the darn thing and we volunteer to support them. Once again I was down there a couple days early helping with setup: running extension cords, setting up the kitchen, hanging things, washing things, bossing people around because apparently I’m a senior volunteer now, huh?

Thursday the 1st of August, 2024, at the dinner hour.

8r4d
Snow Valley | 1½ years ago

❮ ❯

8r4d An outdoor concert and poetry reading at the base of a summer ski hill.

Tuesday the 30th of July, 2024, in the evening.

8r4d
Airport | 1½ years ago

❮ ❯

8r4d And the Kid is off for her epic summer vacation. #dancedad

Tuesday the 30th of July, 2024, in mid-morning.

8r4d
Elk Island Park | 1½ years ago

The video… #hike #nationalpark

Sunday the 28th of July, 2024, in the mid-afternoon.

8r4d
Terwillegar Park | 1½ years ago

❮ ❯

8r4d It’s been a long weekend on my feet, a sixteen klick hike yesterday followed by a sixteen klick #rivervalley #running adventure this morning before the heat of the day kicked in. We made up a route on the fly, but it worked out well enough.

Sunday the 28th of July, 2024, around lunch-ish.

8r4d
Elk Island Park | 1½ years ago

❮ ❯

8r4d scenes from a #hike

Saturday the 27th of July, 2024, before dinner.

8r4d
Elk Island Park | 1½ years ago

❮ ❯

8r4d As our big #hike adventure inches ever closer, another practice was in the cards. We spent nearly five hours doing a long trudge around the mosquito-infested trails of the nearby #nationalpark and wildlife preserve east of the city. The sixteen klick loop circled around one of the lakes and strolled through a variety of forested and open terrain, but it was all pretty flat—well, except for climbing over all the fallen trees from a recent windstorm.

Saturday the 27th of July, 2024, before dinner.