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This was the Calgary Outdoor Club's very first 'overnight' event. First off, I would like to thank Dave Biesbroek for organizing it... in spite of his 'real life' being thrown into utter chaos just a couple days before, Dave found a way to make sure everything to do with this event still came off fabulously. A handful of folks headed up to Nordegg (3 1/2 hours Northwest of Calgary, near the east border of the Banff and Jasper National Parks) earlier in the afternoon on Friday, and some followed later in the evening. Most of us stayed in a dorm style cabin, which holds a maximum of 20 people. There were ten of us in the dorm, and Debbie got her own cabin which she generously shared with the group for partying on both Friday and Saturday evenings. Unfortunately, it wasn't very wintery in the Nordegg area this weekend, so we weren't able to do a few of the things we'd hoped to. We had planned on some snow shoeing, cross-country skiing, and ice skating, as well as ice climbing. The ice climbing went ahead as scheduled, but the rest of us did a couple of hikes, and we all played floor hockey instead of doing that other stuff. On Saturday, we (the non-ice climbers) hiked Crescent Falls. The weather was absolutely beautiful, and the hike had some terrific views. Once we got past the falls, our safety officer, Rob, tested out the ice on the river by tromping out, jumping around a bit, and writing his name in the snow (no, just with his feet, silly!). Once the rest of us were satisfied that it was safe to go out onto the ice, we ventured out and walked a ways further down the river. We found some very odd tracks, which we determined were made by amphibious, gravity-defying bigfeet (bigfoots?) who made the curious outward impressions by walking around upside down inside the river. Sunday we hiked up Allstones Creek with the climbers, where they proceeded to climb the icy gorge wall. We watched for a while and then headed back out. This was a very nice, albeit short, winter hike up a frozen creek. Beautiful and interesting rock formations, and some funky spanish moss (note the "moss-taches" on the "bush people") were some of the visual highlights. An unexpected highlight of the weekend was playing floor hockey in the Goldeye's little gymnasium. My team, which consisted of more of the 'older' folks in the group, kicked some big young-folk a$$. Our goalie, Debbie, did a stellar job of keeping the ball out of our net, and the rest of us, powered by enthusiasm and beer, soundly whupped the whippersnappers on the other side (or at least that's how I remember it)! Another high point for myself was the Goldeye's enormous crib board/table in their rec room where Scott and I played our early morning crib tournaments while waiting for the rest of the gang to get up each morning. I'm sorry to say I lost every game, and at a nickel a pop, I will have to take a second job soon to support my crib-playing habit. -- Rhonda |
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