A week in Golden

Not long after our family holiday in France chez Lenhams, the other side of the family arrived for a week in Canada. We managed to get a fair few activities in to the week, including hiking, MTB, kayaking, canoeing and paragliding. For the middle part of the week we stayed in a fantastic chalet neat Golden. So good in fact that we are going back again later in the year. I posted a bunch of photos from the trip here.

The highlight of the trip was probably the paragliding, although the sun popped behind a cloud at the wrong moment, and we lost any chance of catching thermals. It was a pleasant ride all the same though.

Biking was fun, and we got a few rides in, although the mosquitos this year were dreadful - every time you slowed down you would get swarmed.

On the last night we were treated to a big thunderstorm that started several small forest fires, all extinguished by the following rain. In the morning, the hills were plastered with fresh snow.