The Grand Cafe

As I look out the window this morning I feel things can’t get any worse. Now I’ve said it I know they can. And probably will.

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Young man things will only get worse if we allow them to. Keep your chin up and know there’s lots of people around to help.

Least it’s consistent.

I understand and have
the same feeling often. I know that time heals all wounds though. The reason why I think we (and by ‘we’ I mean my family) look back positively is that we have grown together more than we would have been without the Corona crisis.

I believe there are lots of positives there for us in the future, they just have not yet arrived.

Chin up, as Pete says.

On the positive side, slow is heavy enough it will help enforce lockdown! Of course ther’s the flip side that it will make it difficult for people to get to vaccination centres, and for essential workers to get to work. (In Britain anyway, where people aren’t prepared for snow: quite different where snow is the norm!)

Come on you guys you live in England you really can’t be surprised by a bit of cold weather. It’s a bit like us complaining our summers are too hot.

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LOL. Your not from round these parts, are you.

(National sport)

The weather is changeable.

Spoke with my daughter yesterday who lives in Canada. It was midday here, so only 04:00 there. I asked her what was wrong !

Heavy storms with rain and very strong winds. But no real snow. Their place should be covered in snow this time of year.

She manages about 20 Strata estates and alarms were going off every few minutes. One house had lost its roof and others were severely damaged with wind and rain damage, burst water pipes and severed electricity cables.

Bit of a nightmare.

When we spoke again, about 14:00 their time, most things were under control, by which I mean you could see and hear workmen making safe the property with the lost roof whilst others were cleaning up and making good internal water damage. She confirmed that she had mobilised other recovery teams who were dealing with each of the other damaged properties.

Funny generally our storm season is summer. Although a east coast low can develop off the coast anytime.

Yep, looks like winter (and summer) in the Rockies is changing, just as other places have a changing weather pattern.

Mind you, we’ve had heavy snow in August up in Canmore and quite often in early September at Lake O’Hara and other places in the mountains.

And even when we look back at our own photos starting from 2000, we can see the retreat of many of the glaciers along the Ice Field Parkway. And up in Alaska too.

We were in BC in 2016 and lots of people were keen to tell us how much things are changing, we also got to see a retreating glacier somewhere near Banff.

The most visited glacier in that area is probably Athabasca. It’s about halfway between Banff and Jasper on the Ice Fields Parkway.

You can either take a guided hike on the terminal end of the glacier or a SnowCoach drive up onto the glacier.

The other one that people stop to look at is the Crowfoot glacier also on the Ice Field Parkway, just before Num-ti-Jah Lodge, just above Bow Lake.

But there’s a new sight and a new glacier around just about every bend on the Parkway.

That sounds about right we were driving towards Jasper to catch a train.

the Rocky Mountaineer ?

Sure was. Great trip, took in Vancouver Island as well.

We really are at the opposite ends of the world…

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Perfect!

Are you out on those skis Osprey? Or are you one of those rare Nordics that don’t like skiing…or the snow?