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Fernie weekend

When you’re injured, a weekend mountain biking trip to Fernie is less exciting than it might otherwise be.

But we camped, and hung out, and the boy got to play with new friends, and I got to catch up with old friends.

Alex got out mountain biking, but I satisfied myself with cruising around town, checking out the market, and eating icecream.

Weekends in Fernie are always over sooner than they should be, and it’s always a bit hard to drive back to Canmore afterwards. We were dreaming of having another month or two of mountain biking road trip ahead of us.

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wedding in fernie, bc

After a Winter-extending sojourn in South America (bizarre in hindsight – the seven months of Winter I’d had already wasn’t enough?), I was back in the Rockies – and it was warm! We jumped in the car and drove down to Fernie in British Columbia, cruising down along through the green foothills of the Rockies. We even passed a fence that had a truckers hat on every pole – nearly as impressive as New Zealand’s toothbrush fence (Imagine that, a whole fence made out of toothbrushes!).

But then there was the wedding – a friend getting married on a mountain-top in the Canadian Rockies.

 

Riding the chairlift to the summit
 

And despite the threatening rain, the weather stayed mostly clear, and it was a beautiful day.

 

The bride and groom
 

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canada general travel

hanging out near fernie, bc

Installment one from the roadtrip round BC…

Lazing around in the Lassier Hot Springs
 

The Shack in Wardner
 

Parker
 

Silver Spring Lake, near Elko