页面 2 / 2 在Bagley
Lake的停车场,我们巧遇了由枫下客领队的加西游玩小分队。由于我们自感爬山的技能和体力不能和小分队员们和拍,所以没敢报名参加他们的队伍,但看着他们人手一根专业登山仗,精力充沛的样子,仍然感到羡慕和嫉妒!
离开停车场,我们继续朝目的地,Artist
Point进发。一路上美景无限,几次停车拍照,不在话下。
到了Artist
Point,已经是中午时分。我们商量下来,决定先吃午餐,再爬桌子山。而加西小分队的队员们此时已经安排妥当,开始分组上山。这是他们上山前我偷拍的镜头。
吃完午餐,我们又在附近的观景台转了转,也发现了好几位摄影爱好者扛着脚架和其它设备在那里忙,身边还有一只漂亮的大狗。
这是Artist
Point停车场边、厕所后面的一个看起来是人工修起来的雪洞,研究了半天也没研究出它到底有啥实际用途。奇怪的地方还有那上面的雪在阳光曝晒下怎么就不化?
要上山了,我太太因为临时感到胃有点不舒服,决定不上山了。这样一来,我、我女儿Angela和我们朋友一家三口就开始了登山的“旅程”。
从山脚下看Table
Mountain,还真有点“高山仰止”的感觉。
爬山的过程我就不说了,因为我女儿Angela的描写比我有趣。这是她参加完暑期写作培训班以后写的第一篇作文(在学习时写的习作不算的话),比起参加培训班前还是有很大的进步的。作文的题目叫《Nightmare
Mountain》,全文如下:
Tinkle, tinkle, the rocks were under our feet as we climb
the Table (and terrible) mountain at Mt. Baker in USA. My dad, my friend and her
parents, and I were trying to climb it.
At first it was easy and the road
was wide enough for 2 people, but then it got thinner and thinner. "We're going
to fall!!!", I said to myself, but I kept going. My friend, now she was so
scared that she was holding her mother so tightly that I thought she was going
to squeeze her guts out! I thought she was thinking: "Oh, my, I'm afraid of
heights, I'm going to fall!!!"
But after the hard parts, the rest was ok.
Finally we got to the top.
"Good, I didn't fall." I thought
happily.
But there was one problem ... going down!
I knew I had to
go down but I was scared.
After a while we went down. My dad and I were
faster than my friend and her parents. Probably because she was very scared.
When I was going down I didn't think it was that hard. Maybe because I knew what
was going to happen. After I went down I thought I was crazy to think it was
hard because it looked so easy. So after I went down I told my mother that she
would have never made it and we laughed very hard.
一个比较有趣的现象是在Table Mountain山顶,我们发现有许多登顶者就地取材,用石块垒成的“雕塑”,有的还颇具艺术性和象征意义。
结果我们孩子和朋友的孩子(13岁)也有样学样地各自垒了一个属于她们自己的雕塑,希望来年我们再去那里的时候那艺术品还在那里供人瞻仰,哈!
爬完了Table
Mountain,我们几个“老头老太”已经累得够呛,孩子们虽然兴奋,但对刚才的惊险毕竟还是心有余悸,再加上我太太仍在车里闹胃疼......于是决定班师回府。
回程的路一路顺风,值得书写的地方已经不多。过加拿大海关时,排队的人比早上多多了。加拿大海关的OFFICER显然和气得多了,他(1)人没出岗厅(我自然不知道他是否武装起来),(2)没看我们的护照(尽管我已经把护照举到了他面前),(3)问了我们4句话:where
do you live? where did you go and for what purpose? What's your citizenship, Did
you buy anything?
当我回答完所有问题,尤其是最后一问题回答了“No”以后,他的一句“Bye-bye”,让我们全家释然。
另外补充一点,这次旅行尽管行程来回300多公里,单程耗时2个多小时,但我们的花费只是区区10块美金(5块钱的PASS,另外5块是回程时买一杯咖啡和两个冰激灵)而已,当然,不算汽油费(算的话也只不过10几块加币而已)。可以说是非常经济实惠的旅行哦!
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