Navigation: Index page
Visit to Alberta in June/July 2017
This visit was primarily to attend Jessie and Mike Wrobel's 65th wedding
anniversary celebration. The real anniversary is in the fall, but they
decided to do it on Canada Day (July 1) of Canada's 150 th year.
I visited my sister Jan and her husband Rich southwest of High
River, Alberta, for one night on the way up. I was driving with all
my rafting gear for the Hell's Canyon trip which followed immediately
after the Alberta visit. I had some car trouble starting at Jan's
when I think a rock got into the casing around the flex plate
(flywheel?) through an inspection port whose cover was lost somewhere.
It chewed up the starter motor housing. Somehow the alternator and
battery also ended up bad. All was fixed at a Canadian Tire Service
Center in Edmonton that was remarkably open on July 1 - Canada's 150th
birthday. I managed to pick up Joan at Edmonton International on June
30 despite the trouble.
We stayed with Jean and Ern from June 30 to July 3, going to the
anniversary celebration and taking a walk around the river. Unfortunately
I didn't have my camera with me at the celebration so my only photos are
a few late ones taken with the iPhone, which tends to make a mess of
low-light pictures.
On July 3, we drove the Icefields Parkway to Baniff where we had a
reservation. Then July 4, we took the Kananaskis Highway to Jan's place.
Joan flew out on July 6, and I left for Hell's Canyon on the Idaho/Oregon
border on July 7.
Navigation: Index page
Click on the image for a screen size version.
The "2000" and "full size" versions are larger (not available in web versions).
Jan's house from the river side with its new additions.
|
Jan's house from the front.
|
Me with one of their two new steers.
|
Jan and going past a shelter on the part of their land well above the
river (the house is next to the river) on our way to check a solar
powered watering station.
|
Joan arriving outside customs at Edmonton Airport.
|
Mike Wrobel
|
Jessie Wrobel
|
Jessie, Joan, Jean (Joan's twin), and Ern (Jean's husband).
|
The cake at the celebration for Mike and Jessie's 65 wedding anniversary.
|
Kelly and Joan. Kelly is the son of Joan's sister Marilyn.
|
Joan, Kathy, Jessie, Mike, and Jean
|
Joan, Kathy, Jessie, Mike, Jean, and Marilyn. Mother, Father, and all
the surviving children.
|
Ern on a bridge over the North Saskatchewan River in Edmonton, near
their home.
|
The North Saskatchewan River looking toward downtown Edmonton.
|
Joan and Jean along the river
|
Some dragon boats on the river.
|
The dragon boats and some city buildings.
|
Ern, Jean, and Joan on one of the bridges.
|
Athabaska Falls along the Icefields Parkway.
|
Mt. Athabaska on the left. This is near the Columbia Glacier. I
climbed this mountain in my younger days.
|
The Columbia Glacier, much reduced from when I first saw it.
|
Mt. Athabaska. We climbed the snow ridge about dead center in the photo
in the 1970s.
|
One of the lakes along the Icefields Parkway.
|
Mountain sheep along the Kananaskis Highway.
|
One of the sheep close up.
|
The Highwood River at Jan's ranch.
|
Joan and one of Jan and Rich's horses.
|
The Highwood River at Jan's ranch. The buildings are just
in the trees along the left in this picture.
|
Downstream from Jan's property.
|
Looking toward Jan's access road and the neighbors.
|
The young ones and the longhorn with lumpjaw.
|
Jan and the young ones.
|
|
A couple of horses and a deer.
|
The new mule that Rich just brought back from Montana.
|
Jan at work.
|
A hot air baloon that came by while I was out taking a walk. It went
by the nearly full Moon.
|
The baloon over the neighbors.
|