If you think it's cool - your mom will not...

I live in Canada so I'm kinda immune to beautiful shit.  Aurora Borealis, beaver dams, sparkling rivers, forests thicker than my dad's moustache in the 70s and Ryan Gosling.  But damn Banff!  A rainbow in the mountains?  You are so fucking magical.

My mom reamed me out when she saw this pic, saying it was 'dangerous and risky'.  This from the woman who used to make me rub her shoulders as she drove - WHILE I WAS STANDING ON THE BACKSEAT. Trust me, sitting on the road of an isolated mountain highway is 900x safer than hotboxing 2nd hand smoke from my dad's pipe, or their super responsible use of SPF 4, or maybe all the times I went unsupervised and then that one time when I got lost and had to bike through a cemetery - without a helmet to protect my nerd brain.

**Author's note: the day after this pic was taken, a bear clotheslined some dude on a bike and I'm pretty sure he became part of the bear's meal plan. So there, mom!  We were both right!