 Saddle
Mountain
- Canadian Rockies
Sunday Sept 1 2002
I slept at the closed
campground at Marble Canyon last night. It was raining steady when I
woke up in my bivi sack.
Return to Laggan
I thought of climbing
"The Tower of Babel" but the weather at Moraine Lake was the pits
for over 45 minutes while I ate in the car. So I drove back to Lake
Louse proper and the sky was clear so I decided to go up Saddle
Mountain.
I took one hour to
the Saddle Back and 10 minutes more to get to the top. I made it
back to the Lake in 2:06. The cost was a partial face plant into some
shrubbery and a strained hip in my mad dash to the bottom.
My new polycarbonate
lens sunglasses came through shining though!
Mountain Photography
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Fairview Mountain from Saddle Mountain |
So now here I am back
at Laggan's Bakery in the town of Lake Louise to write about it,
accompanied by an annoying plump fly buzzing about. Stupid
thing!
Outside on the sidewalk by the bench
where I had a pleasant coffee after scrambling
Cirque Peak last year, stoops an engorged Raven.
This donut fed bird can no doubt barely
fly.
This chapter in my
gut wrenching mountain saga is almost over so I'll give you a few clues.
The trail to take is the Fairview Mountain
-Saddle Back trail that
starts next to the boat rental shop on the shore of Lake Louise. The
rest I'll leave for you figure out.
Good Luck! You'll need it!
 he
teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden
of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease.
William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
 e exaggerate the sexual appetite
in ourselves to take the place of the love we inadequately feel.
Graham Greene
1904-1991, British Novelist
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