[Grizzly]

<p>I know for each of us it's different. </p>
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<p>Today, sitting at a picnic table at our campsite, camp fire going merrily, breakfast sitting comfortably in my tummy, nice breeze helping the Aspen leaves applaud the morning...  a wonderful night's sleep after a beautiful hike (more on that later).</p>
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<p>It was one of those moments for me.</p>
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<p>Earlier, at about 7:30 I'd gotten up because I couldn't make my bladder shut up.  I walked through the campground and saw a beautiful patch of fireweed lit up on the early morning sun.  As I passed it I heard a mom's voice calling out for her daughter and I saw that a little girl, no more than 5 was in the patch of fireweed, dwarfed by it, looking up at the flowers swaying in the morning breeze.  "It's soooo beautiful" she said, and repeated it like a mantra.  A kindred spirit perhaps?  Maybe that was one of her "It doesn't get any better than this" moments.</p>
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<p>Here's one from Saturday.  My voice gets drowned out by the wind.  It WAS a perfect day.  That is my wife on the edge of the cliff...  the other two people are our friends who are newly minted Canajuns.  Although we'd hiked there 2 weeks ago with the obys, we'd decided that we needed to return and do it again.</p>
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What the video could not convey and pictures do a hard job of conveying is the fact that the meadow was absolutely filled with flowers of all types and colours.  It was heaven.</p>
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<p><a class="H-lightbox-open" href="http://www.kickrunners.com/content/type/61/id/91401/width/1000/height/800/flags/" target="_blank"><img alt="P1110464.JPG" class="lightbox-enabled" data-id="17419" data-type="61" src="http://www.kickrunners.com/content/type/61/id/17419/width/667/height/500" style="; width: 667px; height: 500px"></a></p>
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<p>A good place to sit and contemplate how it really doesn't get much better...</p>
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<p><a class="H-lightbox-open" href="http://www.kickrunners.com/content/type/61/id/91403/width/1000/height/800/flags/" target="_blank"><img alt="P1110429.JPG" class="lightbox-enabled" data-id="17420" data-type="61" src="http://www.kickrunners.com/content/type/61/id/17420/width/667/height/500" style="; width: 667px; height: 500px"></a></p>
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<p><a class="H-lightbox-open" href="http://www.kickrunners.com/content/type/61/id/91405/width/1000/height/800/flags/" target="_blank"><img alt="Wind Ridge Second Attempt 2.JPG" class="lightbox-enabled" data-id="17421" data-type="61" src="http://www.kickrunners.com/content/type/61/id/17421/width/1000/height/183" style="; width: 1000px; height: 183px"></a></p>
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[Grizzly]

<p>Oh and by the way, not 2 minutes after packing up our campsite was raided by two bears.  Not my cousins, but the ruder black bears.  Sheesh!</p>

 

[sierra]

<p>Those pictures are absolutely breathtaking! I so miss being in a part of the world that has that sort of beauty.  </p>
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<p>There is something so special about hills or meadows filled with all types of wildflowers! Beauty that defies description.  </p>
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<p>Those sorts of places simply leave me speechless, and no, it simply doesnt get any better then that! </p>