Tree teats, Avatar and saganaki … oh my!

Today we took a break from the Olympics.  Well, if you don’t count watching curling in the morning and ice dancing in the evening.  Nicole and I worked until a little after 3:00 PM (closing time back east of course), then we decided to go for a ~6 km hike in Golden Ears Provincial Park.

This was a pretty nice hike, and all along the trail you see the evidence of old, old trees.

And there are plenty of examples where stumps have died off but serve as “nurse logs” for trees that sprout up from within.  This isn’t a very good example of one (check the photo gallery for several others) but I liked the way this one came out.  That tree in the middle of the frame is growing out of the stump at the bottom of the picture.

We also saw some weird coincidental shapes in fallen trees; this one kind of looked like an alligator.  We were tempted to Photoshop some fake teeth but somehow resisted.

At one point Sarah tried to dump Nicole into Gold Creek.  I think this was still a remnant of the argument about whether the DuPont sisters look more like bunnies than hares.  P.S. I checked it out, and the water was pretty cold.

We saw a really cool Inukshuk along the way.  Nicole tried to add a rock to the top, and I thought for sure I was about to be involved in a game of Jenga gone horribly wrong.

I don’t recall exactly what we were doing here, but it looks like I’m doing the Saturday Night Fever move, and Nicole is doing the robot I guess.  If you zoom in (click on the picture to embiggen), our facial expressions are priceless.

Anyway the entire area was beautiful… everywhere you looked there was a snow-capped mountain, or impressive forest, or raging waterfall.

After the hike we gorged on Greek food (again) and Dairy Queen ice cream cake (again). We deserved that after the hike, right?

Oh, and ice dancer Meryl Davis looks an awful lot like Avatar’s Neytiri:

- Aaron

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