14th
2009-06-14 Roger’s Pass to Calgary
We awoke atop Roger’s Pass. On one side, a glacier. On the other, a glacier. What beauty, right here at home. I took a few photos, while fearing the impossibility of capturing a fraction of the scale and breath-taking beauty around us, beautiful and cold! We all dressed in our leg warmers, arm warmers, vest AND jacket, anticipating a frigid descent. We were told that because we hadn’t considered the time zone change, were were one hour behind schedule and would have to shuttle forward 30 kms to make up the time.
We descended 30 km and as we did, the air changed, warming considerably. Off go the leg warmers. Off go the arm warmers. Jacket gone. Vest gone. Back to summer clothes.
The roadways are not as steep as I expected, but what they lack in steepness, they mercilessly make up for it with length. The longest climb was over 10 km. It really hurt having to crane our necks to instamatically capture glimpsed of postcard perfect landscapes that cannot be described with words or even a photograph. They cannot be described; they can only experienced. Make a point of experiencing the Rockies at least once in your life.
As we moved forward to our next starting point, we looked through the rear window at the Rockies and out the front window at the gently sloping pains.
