tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80735692328060104312024-03-13T06:35:14.835-07:00Our Family's AdventuresNarca Moore-Craighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10177549469841414738noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8073569232806010431.post-83530467113811565322011-08-04T13:37:00.000-07:002011-08-04T13:37:56.086-07:00Hiking in the PyreneesWe spent three luscious days in the upper Hecho Valley, based at Hotel Uson.<br />
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</div>Our number one effort was a search for the near-mythical Wallcreeper. (Details are on my other blog!) This quest led us through exquisite scenery in the nearby Gabardito Reserve.<br />
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The second day, after a successful Wallcreeper foray, we ventured into a side valley and into this spectacular scene. New wildflowers and butterflies abounded.<br />
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Our final morning in the Hecho Valley, we drove as high as we could, and then hiked along an old road.<br />
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</div>This region is famous for its dolmens, or megalithic tombs. Dolmens are shrouded in mystery. Most were constructed between 3000 and 4000 years ago, although some in western Europe are as old as 7000 years. Big questions remain: who built them and why? They are likely burial chambers, but not even that is certain.<br />
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Our very distant maternal ancestors (Mom's, Lisa's, Brandon's, Kelly's, Hollin's and mine) may well have roamed here––or might even be buried beneath one of those dolmens! When we took the mitochondrial DNA test to determine our maternal clan mother, we learned that our deep-time matriarch was Katrina (the K-haplotype, in scientific jargon), who lived in the vicinity of southern France and northern Italy––around the Alps––at the close of the last Ice Age. The frozen man found some years ago in the Pyrenees was also a descendent of Katrina. Katrina's clan flourished in northern Italy, and 6% of Europeans descend from her.<br />
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Wendi and Bert's clan mother is Helena, the H-haplotype, who lived in southeastern France, and whose descendants comprise a very high 47% of Europeans. Lots of breeding in that lineage!<br />
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Aunt Susie's clan mother (via our grandmother Glenys Snelson) is Xenia. One branch of that clan traveled east across the steppes of Asia and over the Bering Land Bridge. 1% of Native Americans descend from Xenia, and 6% of Europeans.<br />
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If you don't know your deep-time maternal lineage, it is easy to find out. We used a kit from Family Tree DNA. Cost is about $160, but can be more if you opt for more detailed testing. This test looks at mitochondrial DNA, the special cellular DNA that is only inherited through the mother.<br />
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But I digress!<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The big mammal of the day is Alpine Marmot. Several are nipping the forbs and grasses below us. This is Europe's native marmot, but the ones in the Pyrenees were reintroduced in 1948. They had disappeared from the Pyrenees at the end of the Pleistocene. (Now if only we could do the same thing in North America for Mammoths, Steppe Bison, and Giant Sloths!)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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After the Hecho Valley, we head for Bielsa, another location in the Pyrenees to the east of here. More to come!<br />
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By subway, bus and foot we explore Barcelona, starting with a morning jaunt to Parc Guell, one of the masterpieces by architect Antonio Gaudí which so distinguishes Barcelona from all other cities.<br />
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With this many photos, I'll divide it into three different posts. First, getting ready!<br />
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For Milo the highlight was a reunion with his friend Anya, met while on a camping trip. Anya, her grandmother Anne, and Anya's friend Kirsten caught up with us at the butterfly garden, accompanied us through Butchart Gardens, and later played on the "Old" MacDonald play structure, before Milo, Hollin, Alan and I headed for Port Townsend and home on the ferry.<br />
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Here are a few photos that caught the spirit of the day! First, the butterfly garden.<br />
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Next step, after clearing Customs: find a pedicab to the nearest shoe store!<br />
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Pretty cool shoes, huh? Milo solicited the opinion of every Victorian he encountered, and all agreed. Pretty cool.<br />
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Here are a few from our jam session in January 09, featuring Leona on violin, Dede on guitar, and... drumroll... Milo on bones, with an appreciative audience in attendance.<br />
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And this morning Noel sent this photo of our family watching the foxes that Torin spotted!<br />
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I've started posting details with photos on my other blog, so please check there to see, for instance, pictures of the two wonderful foxes (a Silver Fox and a Cross Fox) which Torin spotted at Engineer Pass. Also you'll soon be able to see photos of the Grail Butterfly––the Lustrous Copper, for which we've searched for years! Now that called for ice cream.<br />
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Please post what you've been doing too. For one thing, Milo lost his first tooth, and Hollin needs to tell us all about the tooth fairy's visit in these modern times!Narca Moore-Craighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10177549469841414738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8073569232806010431.post-10410426446294067402010-07-22T12:32:00.000-07:002010-08-04T10:49:46.920-07:00Welcome!!!This is going to be <i>fun</i>! We can really keep up with each other's interesting doings, if you will each accept an invitation to be an author on the family blog. (It may require signing up for a gmail account, but first let's try the email address you most would like to use.)<br />
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To start with what Alan and I are up to, we leave early tomorrow morning for Lake City, with our good friend Noel. We'll be visiting Brandon, Kenzie, Torin, and later Lisa, and roaming those San Juan Mountains that have been so much a part of our early lives for several of us. Butterflies will be a big focus. The high Rockies have exquisite species.<br />
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