Mountain Views
Most of my business travel
takes me to urban landscapes. However,
sometimes I am lucky enough to find myself in a place where I can add on some
vacation days and take in a bit of nature.
In June of 2003 my travels
took me to a meeting in Canmore, Alberta, a short distance from Canada’s Banff National Park and the Columbia Ice Fields so I took advantage
of the location to rent a car and enjoy a bit of the Canadian Rockies. I never did make it to Lake Louise but did
hike up Johston Canyon and a bit around Moraine Lake and take the gondola to
the top of Sulphur Mountain overlooking the town of Banff.
In June of 2004 my work
took me to a meeting in Krakow, Poland so I took advantage of being in the old
country to revisit Morskie Oko (Eye of the Sea), a crater lake
high in the Tatra Mountains. Unfortunately, the weather that weekend was
drizzly as well as cloudy. As my time
was limited, I took the bus to Lysa Polana and hopped a horse drawn wagon to
the lake instead of trekking up on foot as the rain was getting steadier. The
rain let up enough to allow a circuit of the lake before heading back down the
mountain and returning to Zakopane. (One
of these days I’ll have to scan the photos I took of Morskie Oko thirty years
ago when the sun was shining.)
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updated 7/12/2004.
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