Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Family Day - Heart Creek Hike

We ended up waking up a little later than we'd have liked but actually got up and decided to do a short hike through Heart Creek and check out the rock climbing routes and ice climbing routes to see what the area looked like. I came to this area with the Alpine Club in the summer of 2009. After packing the correct layers for the day we finally got out of the condo at around 1:00 pm and then headed off to the store to pick up Rogue; since we were bringing Barkley as well we thought it would be a great opportunity to take Rogue on her first hike. So we finally got the area around 2:30 pm and then hiked to the end of the trail. We checked out about 3 different walls in the area and then found the ice climbing waterfall near the end of the trail.

Claudia ended up losing her neck warmer but a couple of Europeans found them on our way back. I can't believe i even remembered to ask them if they found it or not. On our way back we Mikyung ended up inviting us over to Jamie's place to eat dinner since we needed to drop Rogue off anyways. Saw Shin for the first time in years, but was in a very awkward situation to talk since it was a huge family gathering and i knew there was already tension going on with Migs and her. For dinner it was home made cabbage rolls, with turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy and steamed peas and carrots. Tried the lipton's green tea in a can which was interesting then the delicious strawberry jello and whip cream dessert. Jamie showed me his Brodie down hill bike which was insanely heavy in the front. When we got home we were exhausted and then watched a bit of Gomorrah (an independent film by Martin Scorcese) about the mafia and what its actually like in Italy. It won a bunch of independent film awards and the reviews were very good for the movie so decided to take it out from the CPL. Have to catch up on watching all of the movies i've taken out recently. Also since i cancelled the TLM gym membership last week, have been thinking weather to join the WHC again or the YMCA gym on the south side.