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Ha Ling Peak: Ten

It was suspiciously windy in the valley when we set off for my tenth Ha Ling Peak ascent of the year, and the Moosling’s first ascent on the outside.

We were just below the treeline when a stop was called for a nappy/diaper change and a feeding. The change on the mountain side went smoothly, apart from the boy starting to slide down off the changing pad thanks to the lack of handy flat ground. Then it was onwards and upwards and into the wind. And by golly was there a lot of it.

 

Mountainside diaper change

 

We were about 100 metres short of the summit when we were hit by a gust strong enough to leave everyone crouching (and one of us minus a pair of sunglasses) – and that was about when we decided we didn’t want to be blown off the mountain, so maybe we’d just go and enjoy the view from the saddle.

 

A little bit windy – on the edge of the saddle

 

So after narrowly avoiding a terrible windy fate, we hiked back down again (as you do), and were terribly grateful to arrive in the trees where the wind could no longer throw rocks at us.

 

Goat Valley views, heading back down again

 

And the Moosling slept snug in his baby sack and sling all the way to the bottom of the mountain, blissfully unaware of any wind (or the trembling leg muscles).

 

Food break

 

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general moosling

Nine months

Not really nine months, but more like six, as the first three were pretty uneventful – on the outside at least…

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And so now it’s Winter?

It feels like we’ve gone from yellow trees to snow in the space of a week. Maybe it’s a few weeks – time does weird things when you’re never getting more than a couple of hours sleep in a row.

 

(There was more snow around first thing, it was all beginning to melt a bit by the time I decided to get up)

 

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Autumnal

All of a sudden all of the leaves are turning yellow (and orange) and falling off

 

Aspen? Beech? I need to get me some tree edjumacation

 

 

Looking out over the yellowing trees of Canmore from below the Nordic Centre

 

 

Cougar Creek – not flowing at all now

 

So that’s the end of “Summer” in the Bow Valley

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Most awesome My Little Pony mods ever

Thanks to the friend who pointed me to these – My Little Pony for Geeks. Hurrah for modern pop culture and the Internet, where would we be without you? Why, we’d be making do with plain old-fashioned ordinary My Little Ponies, and the world would be a much less interesting place.

 

My Little Rorschach Pony (source)

 

 

My Little Avatar Ponies (source)

 

 

My Little Stormtrooper Pony (source)

 

 

My Little Edward Scissorhands Pony (source)

 

 

My Little Spock Pony (source)