Last week while covering a corporate event at the Calgary Zoo, Duane and I had the opportunity to listing to Michael Keating give one of his amazing presentations. For those of you who don’t know of Michael Keating – he is a world-famous naturalist and quite an accomplished outdoors man/photographer/traveler. I had the privilege of hearing him a number times when I was a teacher, and was thrilled to get the opportunity again. I don’t think it is possible to go to one of his presentations and leave uninspired. All this is, by way of preamble, is to explain why Duane and I both rejigged our schedules to get out hiking this week. Unfortunately, our wives didn’t have the same day off so we ended up hiking on different days. Duane and Karyn headed out to Grotto Canyon on Monday and Leah and I went with her folks to the Lake Louise area.

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