I played five tournaments yesterday and whiffed them all, nothing remarkable about that. And it wasn’t a particularly frustrating day or anything, cash games went well so I was up despite the tournament losses. What was remarkable was that after a long day of playing, I had a ton of awesome hiking opportunities to choose from just a few minutes’ drive from my home.
What’s more, the new Euro-friendly schedule on Stars suits my preferred playtimes perfectly. I can start playing between like 11:00-14:00, play for several hours, and have time for an hour or two of hiking in the evening. Right now it’s staying light out until ridiculously late, like 22:00, so there’s plenty of hours in the day.
After yesterday’s session Emily and I hit the trail. We bootlegged it a bit to get on top of the canyon wall for a vista of Grotto Lake with the Canadian Rockies in the background. Then we hiked through a canyon (the creek was running extremely low) to a small waterfall, which seemed a good turning around a point. It was a very fine way to decompress from a long three days of poker!
So many brags…
Epic brag, sick life, etc
Life in Canmore/Banff……ahhhhhh……heaven. As for your hike, aren’t the bears supposed to be bad right now?!?!? 😉
On it- lots of hollering to let them know we’re coming, and bear spray in case they don’t get the message! Things have melted now finally in the higher elevations, so most of the grizzlies have headed up to those areas, black bears still around in valleys tho, but they are a little less scary. It is busy right now b/c berries are in bloom, but so far the trails around town have not had much bear food along them, a lot of them are near the glacial river and dry creek beds. Headed up on a shuttled tour of a alpine meadow tomorrow, so that will be a higher risk / opportunity for bears…
Lol…Emily, good to hear you’re on top of the situation. Good job on a the bear spray, I was just reading a while back they say it’s very effective as bears have such sensitive sniffers.
Beautiful photos, great read! I understand it’s also a good idea to wear bells so the bears hear you, and you don’t have to think about making noise to warn them.