Home again...sigh

From the top of Idaho Peak
Originally uploaded by icemakk.

Well the boys and I have returned from our Kootenay excursion. What a great trip! As you can see from the photo, the area is amazingly beautiful...even with me in the pic!!
We camped at an awesome campground which is mostly free of those big lumbering RVs and the faux campers that reside within. The few that made it in were not your usual home on wheels types thankfully.

The area we were in is up near the Ainsworth hotsprings and has such winding roads that, thankfully, the RVs were few in numbers. Most of those types drive to some campground in a flat area, that more resembles a city park than a campground with RV stacked upon RV in dinky little lots. Yuck!

I never understood the whole "getting away from it all by lugging it all with you" style of camping. Of course many of the RV types fool themselves that they are communing with nature, as they park their fat asses in lawn chairs, smoke, drink, rough it with their indoor plumbing, fridges etc. all the while thinking they are camping. Sorry. You aren't.
Even when I was a kid and my dad would drag our big 20 foot trailer around (mom was not a true outdoorsy type) I would insist on sleeping in a small tent. The trailer was too stuffy.

My sons and I did a bit of exploring in the area and made the drive to the top of Idaho Peak (video link of the view on request, just email me). We smiled at the sign that said motorhomes and vehicles pulling trailers prohibited. Nice! Just real outdoor people!

The trail up the hill is more of an old logging road and we never made it out of 1st gear as we bounced our way up the narrow 12 km trail.
At the top a tiny parking lot awaited us with a spectacular view but it was nothing compared to the one that was at the very summit.
A 1.6 km hike found us standing on top of the world!! RV pukes...eat your hearts out!
I have been up on mountain summits before but the panorama of these 3 mountain valleys, Slocan lake, the alpine meadows and the peaks of so many mountians that seemed to stretch forever impressed us all.
It was sad to make the trip back from this place but we will return.

Back in Calgary I did my final show this past Saturday at the Laughing Arts Festival which was a great success. I look forward to next year's fest.

This week, if you are in Calgary pop by The Comedy Cave where I will be headlining all week. The Comedy Cave is in their new home in the Travelodge on Macleod Trail and it is an awesome room to play. I look forward to my 8 shows.
For more info visit The Cave's website and come see the best comedy show in town!!
Cheers

Daryl Makk