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Monday, 26 January 2015

Elk crossing

Touring further east on our way to the Rocky mountains, we passed through a small town called Field and had the quintessential rockies experience. Field is the last stop on the CP railway before the famous spiral tunnels, but we ran into a bit of a traffic jam crossing the rail line.

Elk blocking the rail track and road into town
Apparently Elk actually wait until later in the season to come up high in the mountains, when the snowpack is >2m in depth. This way they can reach the tasty old man's beard that hangs higher up on the trees here.
 

 

2 comments:

  1. Did you partake in the ice climbing fest?

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    1. Unfortunately not. But we did see all the ice climbs in the valley. Pretty spectacular.

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