Field is just off the Trans-Canada Highway in the heart of the Canadian Rockies and Yoho National Park. We drove here yesterday after Domhnall picked me up from Calgary airport, to stay a few days with Jess & Jason in their beautiful old wooden house. Field is tiny and funky, full of people who live for the outdoors, for skiing and the mountains, with some great places to stay (including Jess and Jason's very own gorgeous suite), a nice pottery, and occasionally elk roaming the streets. Geologists are generally excited to learn that it's the home of the Burgess Shale fossils ('biology's Big Bang', as the Smithsonian describes them), but as you can't get to the fossil sites in winter, which is the only time I come to visit, this cute video is the closest I've been.
I came here first six years ago and have been back every couple of years since. Most memorably after a nine day ski tour across the Wapta-Yoho glaciers - such an amazing trip, made even better by the warmth, whisky and hot shower at Jess & Jay's after we skied out. So far this time we've not been as adventurous - just a little cross country ski round Emerald Lake this afternoon. The views were a bit Scottish but it was FUN to be out on skis again!
I came here first six years ago and have been back every couple of years since. Most memorably after a nine day ski tour across the Wapta-Yoho glaciers - such an amazing trip, made even better by the warmth, whisky and hot shower at Jess & Jay's after we skied out. So far this time we've not been as adventurous - just a little cross country ski round Emerald Lake this afternoon. The views were a bit Scottish but it was FUN to be out on skis again!
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| Domhnall skiing on Emerald Lake |
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