Benvindo ao Brasil!
A few pictures from a lazy afternoon wandering around Salvador, Bahía, Brazil.
The signs says you’d be stupid to touch this tree. I wish I knew what it’s called.
Benvindo ao Brasil!
A few pictures from a lazy afternoon wandering around Salvador, Bahía, Brazil.
The signs says you’d be stupid to touch this tree. I wish I knew what it’s called.
A few of the many unique fruit available in Brazil: manga rosa, manga amarela, manga verde, umbú, acerola, pinha, cajú, carambola, goiaba. Others not seen in this video include jaca, jabuticaba, cirigüela, laranja, mamão, mazã, abacaxí, maracajú, limão, cajú, and at least 50 more I can’t remember right now!
Waiting for Ski Patrol to open The Zone, at the summit of Panorama. We were amongst the first down into the glades. With 25-30 cm of fresh powder, locals were saying it was the best day in 6-7 years!
Yesterday was my first time up Grizzly Shoulder in the Rogers Pass. With close to 75 cm of fresh snow fallen in the previous few days, and the avalanche hazard finally dropping out of the red zone, it was time to venture out bright and early from our lodgings at the Wheeler Hut and test the terrain. The parking lot at the hotel was full of cars. Fortunately, a good number of them were students taking an avalanche hazards course, so that meant virtually no one was headed to our destination: Grizzly Shoulder, in the trees 800m above the right side of Connaught Creek. [An aside, one of the course leaders was long-time guide Albi Sole, while the other was Eric Vezeau, the ice-climber from Revelstoke who survived falling through the ice on Johnston Creek in Banff Park a month ago!]
Three happy faces at the bottom of our run all the way to the valley floor! (Alex, Lynn, myself). Alex was gobsmacked: so this is back-country skiing in Canada! Lynn and I were pretty happy, too. Yep, that’s a helmet cam on my head.