La Cloche Silhouette Trail complete: 78km(+) and 8 days. Made our 5 day Banff trip two years ago seem easy in comparison. Kaius (5) walked maybe 50%. Liepa (3) maybe 10%. Looking for a masseuse now with @KDziugaite. 
Kids ate way more than we anticipated. We ended up one meal short and needed way more trail snacks. Still @KDziugaite and my packs started off at 16kg and 18kg on day 1!! Yikes. Then add on our son (~21kg) and daughter (~16kg). Carrying this weight was a lot of work.
Every morning and evening, Karolina and I had our roles to play. Filtering water, cooking, fires, packing, staking, redressing, etc. The kids entertained themselves for hours, mostly playing house in the forests. Here’s Liepa climbing around one of our campsites.
Besides the kids, we had our Berner “Bacio” who started off carrying his own food and, as that disappeared, ended up carrying our trash. Here’s Kaius on my back south of Silver Peak. That’s Bacio on the left.
Liepa took naps on several afternoons. Here she is napping during a hike.
The Silhouette trail goes through phases with very different landscape. This is north of Silver Peak (I think) on an opposing ridge line.
Here’s a point earlier along that same ridge line, but looking more west. Kaius is riding with me.
Our favorite campsite was on night 4. We only had 6km that day (after a grueling 15km day) and so we actually had time to swim and relax. It was also a dry day.
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