 Mount
Bourgeau
- Canadian Rockies
Mount Bourgeau is
always hard for me to type out, French does not come easily to me.
The peak however is easy to get up, just takes awhile that's all.
1500 meters stretched over 24 k or so. It never gets steep so is
easy on the knees to get back down.
Located near Sunshine Village the trek to the summit
makes for a long day. There are only one or
two spots where a hand will find the rock.
On the way up you
pass a lovely lake named after the mountain as well as a handful of
tarns. A very scenic trip.
Two trips were made
by me myself and I to Mt. Bourgeau this summer (2001). The first trip
was alone and on a beautiful day.
At the lake a squirrel
came to visit me. I snapped a shot of him looking over a boulder, no
doubt wanting a hand out. I gave the critter nothing but a smile
and a few soft words. Further up the mountain near the summit were
some ptarmigans.
The summit was chilly even in the middle of the
summer. I hunkered down behind the telecommunications building to
eat lunch. To be lucky enough to reach a warm summit in the Canadian Rockies you must have
excellent, very warm and very calm weather. My favorite conditions.
Try August. Maybe September.
Another trip was organized
where other people were interested in
going to an easy peak so I suggested this one. I have no problem
with a day in the mountains, even if it is repeating another trip.
The day was uneventful
except for the adrenalin rush I had at one point.
I was walking and talking with
freind, when a tremendous
feeling washed over me. A slower more relaxed pace allowed the endorphins
and adrenalin to give pleasure instead of coping with pain,
which is normal for me with my sometimes crazed pace. I like to
push.
This was the start
of more substantial and less debilitating (physically that is)
adrenal activity than on Cascade. Never in my life have I had it
like this. If you experience this type of thing you should perhaps
go see a doctor. A growth near your kidney can cause this type of
accelerated adrenal activity.
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is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but
of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues.
They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition,
and of unspeakable love.
Washington Irving
1783-1859, American Author
 nnihilation has no terrors for
me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred
million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life,
than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million
years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of
all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of
care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and
unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday
which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful
desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.
Mark
Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
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