First day in Canada

Today I woke up in the percell range, home of the bugaboos.  Drove to Canmore and met up with River and Opus. We organized the food and supplies for the next 2 weeks.  We meet Dustin Lynx, the author of the original gdt guide book. We had a great visit and I'm looking forward to spending a bit more time with him in mid July.  We finally rolled out of Canmore to our next resupply spot which is in a week in Coleman at an air B&b.  

Overall a great day.  It rained, snowed and we had a great rainbow.  

The day wrapped up Beaver Mine. Tomorrow down to waterton to explore the crypt lake trail.  

Rainbow last light. Beaver mine

My trail companions 

Columbia lake

That's a lot food! 

Sandpoint idaho

I left Eugene on the July 2nd. Stopped in Portland to pick up my new Fuji X-Pro 2 camera. Wow. Talk about a fun camera to work with. It's a big upgrade over the X-E2. The optical viewfinder with the active crop overlay is great.  It's kind of like my Fuji GW690 but smaller and with auto focus.  The X-E2 is with me on standby. Backup body nearby.    

Camera bag - photos to follow. I took a small lowepro top loading hip pack and modified it to work with the waist strap on my Hyperlight backpack. Many thanks to hydrofit in Eugene for sewing a new loop in place.  I also took a pair of scissors to the bag and removed and an ounce of useless material. I don't need a handle. Extra glass is in a small sea line dry bag. Camera will go in either a 4L or 8 L bag. Batteries cable release and filter stuff is in a small iPad mini waterproof bag system from B&H (4.95)

tripod  I was going to use the Gitzo traveler series 1 for the entire trip. It is an amazing piece of engineering. Super stout at only 2.5 lbs.  I also just picked up a a really right stuff table top setup. It's way strong and only 9oz with the head. But it's super tiny and the head only goes to a 45 degree angle. This week will be telling on how it performs.  I'm so used to something big.... But 9oz is impossible to ignore. 

Lego guy. Pet sub project.  #5yearsold  I'm going to shoot a series of photos of him daily on the trip. How knows maybe that will prove more intern then the landscape photos. :) 

Lego guy needs a name

Maggie really wanted to come along

A huge Thank You to and aunt and uncle for the use of their truck on this voyage.   

Sandpoint had beer

On that note it's time to fill the tank and cross into Canada  

Last test

The last night in my own bed.  Leaving dogs, Kara, Lukas and family in the morning.  

Excited tense and ready all come to mind. So many unknowns await.   

Test image. Booth photo for Tylar Merrill  

Fuji export test

I'm working out the details of posting I,ages directly from my Fuji camera to this blog.  First run.  I'm processing the Raw files directly in the camera and them transferring them to the iPad.  

Lukas at twilight  

The Fuji excels at allowing creative vision.   

Bill Soule ready to climb

Maggie on a climbing day.  I take no credit for this image.  She has her eyes on me S I climb above.