Club Events 2004 : 2004-12-12 : COC - Death Valley - Windy Point - Foran Grade Loop

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What a magical winter wonderland kind of day! This hike is an admittedly boring and somewhat unpleasant hike during the summer. Views are ok, and the trail is often mucky and chewed up from horse and cattle tracks. Perfect wonderful winter hike, though - especially with a fresh four inches of snow like we found waiting for us when we got there.

The trees and weeds and ground were covered in a beautiful, pristine, shiny blanket of white. The views were more appealing because of the contrast that the fresh snow provided. The footing was a little tricky due to the frozen horse- and cattle-hoof chewed up muck. Definitely ought to have done the hike the other way around, and will next time (do the work up front instead of near the end).

Jennifer the Geologist joined us for her first hike today (one more Jennifer in this club and we'll have to rename it the "Calgary Outdoor Jennifers Club"... one more Geologist and we'll have to rename it to the "Calgary Outdoor Geologists Club"... one more Jennifer Geologist and that would just be plain weird) and entertained us with stories of her parakeet, Bob, calling people 'peckerhead' and whistling at the 17-year-old paperboy (yeah, sure Jen... it's the BIRD doing it all), and her geophysicist co-worker lighting his farts in her office. She is just lucky that our Oversheriff, Cheryl, was away in Victoria, otherwise it would already be time for Cheryl to pick up a new citation book (Oversheriff: the official in charge of giving people citations when they overshare, or share too much information).

This hike has hit my top-ten favorite winter hike list (being promoted from my "shoulder season, we'll take what we can get" list), but really ought to be done right after a fresh snow. I can't stress enough how fabulous it was today!!

-- Rhonda


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