An entertaining ride with Colin today out to Marble Canyon and back to Banff. The sun proved the weather forecast wrong turning into a beauty day with no traffic on the roads. Hwy 93S views are hard to top anywhere.

Leaving town on Vermillion Lakes road we came across the moma grizzly & and her 3 cubs right on the side of the road while seeing a large black bear on the 1A, no time to take pics.

During the ride Colin casually mentions he climbed with Greg Child yesterday, a 'mellow' trad route up the Tower of Babel off Moraine Lake.

I replied WTF you climbed with Greg Child! That is like playing hockey with Gretzky or golfing with Nicklaus. 

Turns out Greg is in town for a few weeks seeing his lady in Banff, this lady works with Colin's wife so hence the hook up.

Colin said it was surreal climbing with him, all the time thinking 'is this happening right now'.

Wow buddy!

Insert from a http://www.banffcentre.ca/mountainfestival/  2010 interview

What gives Greg such esteemed recognition I wonder? Well, for starters, the Australian-born rock-climber, mountaineer, author and Emmy award-winning filmmaker who’s been obsessed with the big climbs for some 30 years, was one of the early pioneers of rock-climbing in Australia, has made ascents of no less thanK2, Mt. Everest and Gasherbrum IV among many other, and led first ascents in areas such as Baffin Island and Yosemite.