I don't have any photos to share just yet, but I had some amazing Vit N experiences I wrote about yesterday that I wanted to share!
"This afternoon I was just leaving the park and I saw something out of the corner of my eye. Running out of the trees -- about 100 m from my house -- and towards the highway was a beautiful big grizzly bear! It was Grizzly 116, a just-older-than-teenage male grizz that's been hanging around the area. I think he's the guy that pooped in between me and my neighbour's house. He was a nice rich brown colour with blond highlights, and a massive hump of muscle at his shoulders! Totally amazing. The wind was blowing through his fur and he just looked so wild. I felt so blessed!
The wind here today has been absolutely nutbar. So I decided to go for an evening walk. With my bear spray of course. The wind was whipping from all directions. Big tall pine trees were leaning away from it and the trembling aspens were bent over with the power of the wind. Not 50 meters from the house I saw the first downed tree...ripped up from its roots! You know the saying "If a tree falls in the forest, does anybody hear?". Well a little later, I heard a tree crack! And then heard the sound of it crashing into the trees around it. And then there was the grass...probably my favourite part of the evening. Swirling, dancing, flattening, flipping, twisting...if it weren't for the chill I could have watched it for hours. I felt so vibrant, alive and supercharged!!! Wahoo!!!"
*Apparently 7 large trees came down in the campground last night...if the wind got any stronger they were thinking of evacuating sections of the campground!
