VivaLaVida!

A journey to meet the planet and its inhabitants...

South West Yukon

As anounced, VivaLaVida arrived in Yukon, the most North-West province of Canada. This territory extends till the Arctic Ocean. The South is hilly and covered with a uniform boreal forest, the North is only tundra till out of sight.     1. The famous “Sign Post Forest in Watson Lake.Read More…

Jasper National Park & South Alaska Highway

Continuing my journey in Canadian Rockies.     1. Going up the Maligne Valley in Jasper National Park.       2. Allong the road, meeting with a small group of big horn sheeps and calfs.       3. Likely only a few weeks old…       4.Read More…

Banff NP & Icefield Parkway

These Canadian Rockies are gorgeous. I continued to explore those looping south of Banff, a grouse mountain station 1:30 away from Calgary. I’m then past in Alberta.     1. Castle Mountain, only some miles North of Banff.       2. A male sheep that I managed to getRead More…

From Montana to Canada

From Butte I continue my way North visiting Glacier National Park. More than some small glacier that still subsist – but for how long? – it’s a land of mountains and lakes.     1. Allong the road, a funny oldtimer hitch!       2. Kintla Lake, retired andRead More…

Montana: Bannack & Butte

The Lemhi Pass is on the Continental Divide. There is tla “Farest Fountain”, the source that is furthest from the delta of the Missouri / Mississippi.     1. Farest Fountain Creek.       2. Typical portal       3. Coyote Flat.       4. Arrival atRead More…

Ghost Towns of Idaho

As announced, here are some images of three ghost towns dating from the gold rush. Most of them have been inhabited for a few years before new gold discoveries decide to relocate their inhabitants.     1. First visit at Custer, in Yankee Valley       2. Traditional logRead More…

Idaho (3)

Still discovering Idaho     1. Sunset from Sunset Peak, above Boise.       2. Trying to reach Deadwood Reservoir, I was one more time stopped by the snow.       3. The altitude marshes are waterlogged…       4. … and rivers overflow.      Read More…

Idaho (2)

Not far North of City of Rocks, I did some hikes in the Independance Mountains.     1. Green pasture.       2. Going up in the mountains, I find the tender green of young leaves again.       3. Snowmelt floods forest roads that borrows VivaLaVida.  Read More…

Grand Lac Salé encore & Sud de l’Idaho

Après plus d’une semaine à Salt Lake City sans parvenir à vraiment résoudre les soucis de chauffe de VivaLaVida, j’ai repris la route en commençant par contourner le Grand Lac Salé par l’ouest…     1. Derniers rayons sur le Temple Mormond de Salt Lake City.       2.Read More…

Great Salt Lake

Before Jean_Luc left to fly back to San Fransico, I suggested to bring him see the Great Salt Lake, a place where I saw a lot of birds during my last trip there.     1. Arrival to that so large and quite lake.       2. In theRead More…