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Legend: Red circles denote cities where we have friends who we visited and stayed overnight. Blue circles stand for other places we stopped by. Green symbols are for campgrounds.


Friday, July 10, 2009

Monday 6.7. (Rocky Mountain)

Early in the morning, we headed toward the first national park. Peter drives (which probably won´t change for a while :), slowly ploughing the altitude kilometers. The highest point, where we got with the car, has over 3700 meters above sea level -- thinner air was certainly enregistered, especially when we tried to walk somewhere. Rocky Mountains is a beautiful and varied national park (we lived through almost all kinds of weather, from scorching sun to rain and snow). Larger part of the park can be comfortably passed by car but we managed to set off on a longer walking trip -- indeed, the rain destroyed our plans ahead of the schedule, but beforehead, we got to the total wilderness full of completely tame well-fed marmots. When we arrived into the camp in one of the valleys of the national park, it was already after the rain and fairly cold; the night was far from warm. Luckily it was not snowing :). People in camps are very nice and polite (as a matter of fact, not only in camps). The grizzly phantom did not appear at night, neither it sieged Zuzka, who slept in the car where all the food was stored by rules of the camp. But when it started to rain at night, I envied Zuzka´s place, bear or no bear.

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