The Wolfs Den Lodge Fernie

... due to the snow we had to stick to the flat trails. We were also hampered in any desire to go to far in the snow due to Adam’s cold feet, amazingly his combo of cotton trainers and plastic bags round his socks failed to keep his little toes warm and dry! So after lobbing a few snowballs into the river we settled for a snowman building completion. As Adam was suffering from frostbite he took the role as judge rather than competing with us three ice ...

We are currently at Fernie, staying with a friends, we have left the Rv in Cochrane and are here with one of Jos cousins, her aunt and and assortment of cousins children. The golfing is great in this little town and fishing the Elk river is great, we caught lots of ...

... by the landscape and beauty of the place this is nature at it's very best.
As it is a cattle ranch there is always tonnes of things to do but it was a really nice fun atmosphere so you didn't mind going that extra mile to help and the food was just amazing almost everything from the farm and organic and super fresh, amazing!!
Over the course of the two Weeks i was there we did all sorts of work like ...

Crossed the Rockies, left Jasper National Park behind as we travel through the Kootenay region, past Fort Steele and stop at Cranbrook. Hope the truck is ready as promised tomorrow, we will drive to Kalispell once more and re-visit Eureka MT on the way. What gorgeous weather we have been granted!

... then storing into blocks and mixing with fat or oil for painting.  Unfortunately the same could not be said for the white man who obviously saw a commercial opportunity and started to milk the natural resource until the area was designated a national park. 

We had one night en route to our Dude Ranch at a place called Cranbrook  We decided to stop at an attraction highlighted in our guidebook which said it was worth visiting. And it was.  Fort Steele was named ...

... tent, hang your food away from tent (in a tree), or off a bridged as we did. No toothpaste or anything near your tents.

Yesterday we climbed another pass to 5000 feet, on road, which made it easier. I think I sweated a liter or so on the way up. The sun was out at 27 degrees. Hot, from there all downhill. Down down down to the farm lands, mountains behind us. We peddled into the night knowing there was a camp site in the town. We snuck in late ...

... pretty busy and had a pool table and played great music. The owner was very helpful because on the last day we had to catch the 4:30 am bus back to the airport, it was late, and he let us sit inside when it was closed to wait so we wouldn't freeze outside. There was a wide spread of nationalities in the town. A lot of people from Australia working for the season and I made some great friends. I came back to Lake Louise in March. My traveling ...

... best part of an hour's drive we arrived amid the bright lights of Fernie. Hotels, motels, fast-food joints and gas stations lined the highway. After a couple of days on the Cowboy Trail it was like arriving in Vegas. Ted found me a hotel to suit my budget and waited while I checked in. I thanked him for rescuing me and went off to take a hot bath. Later, after a huge plate of pasta and a pint of Rickert's Red, I lay down on an exceptionally comfortable bed and fell into a deep dreamless sleep. ENDS

... changes necessary and practical? What do people on both sides of this dialogue deem appropriate and just? Do the Buiddhists of Thailand believe that these changes are necessary? Perhaps this is a one sided dialogue of western ethicists and feminists? Do social reformers have the right to change core religious doctirnes? I am interested in finding out, what of socially engaged Buddhist thought may be applicable in this situation? What are the contributing ...

... barely counts. Instead our caffeine fixes are met at little privately owned cafes with cute names like Mugg Shots and Jamocha. All serving fair trade coffees and an excellent selection of vegetarian dishes. And the dogs....they all seem to be so happy here. Hopefully when I die I will have done enough good deeds to come back as a dog in Fernie. It seems like a pretty good life to me. Chris and I are constantly walking around town exclaiming look at the ...