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B.C. Rockies Roadtrip: Escape from Yoho (part 4)

Posted on 10. Jul, 2009 by Kerry Banks.

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Twin Falls is a sweet piece of eye candy: water spilling through two grooved chutes at the top of the chasm, falling through air, then merging into the same flow farther down, before crashing over the rocks and becoming a frothing cauldron. There is a bench that offers a head-on view of the show, so I sit down and soak it all [...]

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B.C. Rockies Roadtrip: Climbing to the Falls (part 3)

Posted on 10. Jul, 2009 by Kerry Banks.

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We are trudging up a forest trail somewhere in the Yoho Valley, just west of the Continental Divide. I am sweating buckets and gasping for air. We are on the hike that Tom and Janice earlier described as “pretty easy.” I now know that these two can’t be trusted. The lone consolation, and it isn’t much, [...]

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B.C. Rockies Roadtrip: A Cathedral of Stone (part 2)

Posted on 06. Jul, 2009 by Kerry Banks.

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Now that his cellphone is no longer functioning, Joe is forced to converse. He begins tellling us about the celebrities that he has interviewed for his newspaper column, or, in the case of Ben Affleck, tried to interview. Joe collared Affleck at a Toronto Blue Jays’ game, but the actor blew him off, so Joe sat behind his [...]