Takkakaw Means “It Is Magnificent!” Act VI/Scene 13: Yoho National Park, Alberta, Canada, 2005 “Think I’ll go out to Alberta Weather’s good there in the fall… Four strong winds that blow lonely Seven seas that run high All those things that don’t change come what may” Four Strong Winds, Neil Young
Gail gets high in Yoho National Park.
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ooking back on all our many adventures and hikes all over the world, I end this “act” of 13 travel stories with this. Gail and I loved the province of Alberta, particularly the Canadian Rockies around Banff, where we took three long hiking vacations over the years. On the tail end of our summer vacation here in 2005, we were greeted on the very last day of August to a crispy, chilly 28-degree morning. We stumbled around our cabin, putting the coffee on and getting a fire going in the 306