Turbo's Track and Photo Tour: The valley drive home. 120716

An accounting of outings taken with guests of Turbo's Track and Tour. All photo's on the site are copyrighted by the original poster, unless specifically mentioned in write up. I do not claim to be a photographer, the intent is to provide evidence of what I can find for you! I'd love to get comments on what is presented here. I'd like to thank Russell for finding the originator of the following quote: "There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing." -- Sir Rannulph Fiennes

Sunday, 22 July 2012

The valley drive home. 120716

Raymond and I were headed down to the Elk Valley to take Courageous Safety Leadership, and decided to take the slow road home. We foudn this Ruffed Grouse female at 5:15. We had the opportunity to see one of her chicks, but who knows how many were there.

There wer a fari number of Campers and trailers on the road, there always seemed to be someone around. we grabbed this shot of a Columbian Ground Squirrel at 6:30.

At the major T-intersection of the road, we decided we better take the faster way home so the SPOT device wouldn't alert our late arrival. So we opted for a chance at a moose versus Grizzlies, bummer to have to make a choice, but we made the safe and right choice. We found cooperative Swainsons and this Cow and Calf moose (the animal we really started out to find close to home.