strangers

The one thing about this trip that has impressed me the most isn't the climbing - or the beautiful mountains: its the acts of kindness I have experienced from people we have met.

Tat: I met her for a couple hours at Lija's house in Toronto in june. Here it is july and I stayed at her place for 10 days. She seemed so happy to open her home up to Al and I. In the end she has become a good friend.



Rolands: Tat's dad - this guy invited Al and I to his house for 2 wonderful meals. We went to the Stampede together and talked about the mountains.

Rolands is quite the hiker.He goes out almost every weekend to do some very impressive all-day hikes up mountains . As soon as he heard that Al and I were going to hike up pounds of water to camp Ín the bugaboos he insisted we take his water filter, saving us from hiking gallons of water up a 3 hour hike up to the hut.

Mike and Claire: Saw Al and I at MEC and recognized us from when they lived in Toronto and climbed at Rock Oasis. We talked at MEC for 5 minutes and they graciously offered to take Al and I climbing and let us stay at their house for 2 nights (I am in their son's room now).



All these amazing people and I've only been gone for 2 weeks...

I'm pretty excited to see what other great people I will meet in the coming weeks.

K-