Good idea: Enjoying the outdoors by chilling out in a copse of trees, halfway up the mountain. Bad idea: starting a campfire up there. Seriously, we saw the ashes of a fairly recent campfire some moron hikers had decided was necessary, despite it being a terribly dry season, with rampant wildfires raging in our national parks. I wish I could find these morons and punch them until they could no longer have kids...
Anyways, back to our main story. We ascended The Big Sister (the tallest peak of the Three Sisters) in the Canmore area yesterday, topping out at a high point after about 800m of elevation gain, shy of the summit because the kiddo was not feeling it (again, our bad). But for his first real experience scrambling a mountain, he did awesome. Lesson learned: start small next time.
The early part of the hike through the trees. Steep.
Above the treeline. Continuing steeps.
This little dude was a trooper.
Navigating a steep and lengthy downclimb... which we would later discover was completely unnecessary.
Scrambling on all fours.
The highpoint we would call it quits at.
Me!
All that matter is your state of mind.
And lastly, the ashes remaining from the fire I talked about. STUPID PEOPLE!
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