Sulphur Mountain Banff National Park

It has been far too long since we last blogged as since starting work we have been running out of time! We are now both working on the mountain - me as Day care Supervisor and Nick as a Lift Operator and helping maintenance out using his engineering knowledge! We have both been working 5 day weeks and getting some evening hours too - me babysitting …

Our time in Banff has come to an end! Whilst the whole season has gone unbelievably fast, the end of the season hasn't exactly been sudden. For the last two weeks Mount Norquay, where we have been working, has been closed, we've packed up once already to move to a new place and the first of our traveller friends started making tracks as early as …

... footwear for the morning. First stop was the Banff Gondola - a seven minute ride to the top of Sulphur Mountain which afforded spectacular views of Banff, the Bow River valley and the surrounding, snow-capped Rockies. Icy cold and icy snow on the ...

The day started out good. First, we took the gondola ride up Sulphur Mountain. This was one of Mom's "must do" and it was tons of fun. Afterwards, we walked around Banff a bit, which was easy to do because the city is pretty small. There are a lot of ...

... rubbish....but it was raining. As we came out the mountains were covered in snow & bitterly cold. The trip up sulphur mountain on the goldola gives fantastic views....no apology about all the pics being awesome views with ugly mugs in front ...

... blue skies. After a gourmet birthday breakfast of rice crispies and orange juice, we set off for supplies, and hiked up Sulphur Mountain. Well only up to the bottom of the gondola ride, but still past the impressive Fairmont Banff Springs (the hotel ...

... , or take the 8 minute gondola ride to the 2,281-meter-high (7,486-foot) summit of Sulphur Mountain for one of the most famous views in Canada—a 360-degree panorama encompassing the town of Banff, the Bow River Valley and Banff Springs Hotel, ...

... , so glad she did. It is such an inviting little town with so much to offer in terms of outdoor activities.  We opted to climb Sulphur mountain in the end. It's about 3.5 miles up the mountain - made harder by the lack of oxygen due to altitude. We ...

... ; We continued on the parkway to the Lake Louise area.  We checked out the gondola (ski lift), but decided that the Banff Sulphur Mountain Gondola looked better.  Then, we drove to Moraine Lake and the Valley of the Ten Peaks.  See if you ...

... have been up to? Well before my Banff bestie Kate left me we did a few fun things like- -Going up the gondola at Sulphur Mountain and admired the amazing views from there. -Took a day trip into Calgary for some much needed retail therapy.. (Calgary ...

... work to come between bear, a meal and Moi! I don’t possess sufficient words in English to describe the sheer beauty of Banff and the National Park, we look forward to seeing what tomorrow brings in Lake Louise and the Yoho National Park. ...

... gondola; putting me to even more shame. You can actually see six mountain ranges from the summit of Sulphur Mountain and I definitely recommend people staying in Banff to do this experience. We took the bus back down into Banff and decided that we would ...