Sunday, August 8, 2010

Camping with Dad!

This past week Carolyn & the kids came out to Pincher Creek to spend some time with dad while he worked.

We went for a drive the first night they were here and stopped at Castle Falls.

Cuddling by the falls.
Our random camping spot in the Forest Reserve south of Pincher Creek.
Our camping spot right along South Drywood Creek.

The creek provided hours of entertainment for the kids.

Blair bathed in it every night even though the water temperature was about 4 degrees. I warned him he was going to freeze something off, Erinn, being so smart, told him he'd have to replace it with a frozen weiner out of the freezer!

My first bear call of the week was from my wife!

Apparently this guy got into some other random camper's cooler, they were camped just down the creek from us about a 100 meters, when they came to warn Carolyn about the bear she called me, they then got in the truck and drove over to snap these pictures.
Nothing fazes my family, after the bear spotting they were right back playing by the creek while Carolyn sat with the shotgun at the ready back at camp. The camper's whose cooler was broken into packed up and left. I set a trap in their spot, which is got to be the easiest one for me to monitor while I sip a beer in my lawn chair by the creek!

A hoary marmot that the kids spotted on our drive up to the top of Corner Mountain.

Erinn & Blair standing on the top of Corner Mountain right underneath Victoria Peak with Castle Mountain off to the right.

2 comments:

kelly said...

Hi there!
I just happened upon this post and am wondering where you camped? Unless you are keeping it a secret!!We won't tell!! We are heading down that way next week and want to random camp south of Pincher but not up in the Castle/Lynx Creek area as it is too full of ATVers. By your pictures and description it sounds like you were on the west side of #6 as it is private land on the east side. Anyway, not sure if you will get this as your blog does not look active but I enjoyed what was posted so far!
Thanks very much.

Kelly Simpson

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