Brewster's Kananaskis Guest Ranch
Travel Blogs from Kananaskis Village
Day 7 Stayed in Lake Louise
... little lake (Lake Agnes) – gorgeous!
Then rushed out of there and to the Lake Louise gondola (got there 15 minutes before they sold their last tickets!). Beautiful ride to almost the top of the mountain. Amazing view from the top. Best part by far though was my sighting of a grizzly bear!! Yes, that’s right, a grizzly! It was a fair bit away and I couldn’t get a good picture but just seeing it ...
Rain go away!!!
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Lunch at the famous Fairmont on Lake Louise...look it up...spectacular...happy Birthday to Roger who wanted a shot of tequilla to "sip"...$22 a tiny tiny tiny "sip" and happy nothing feeling...
Lunch, fog, rain, and now we are all sitting in our cabin listening to music, having cocktails..and thats how they convinced me to write this blog....
Happy Birthday Roger...BTW he is 42 today...Old Old man...We love ya!
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Grizzlies....please?
... were created with the small stones and we all relaxed and warmed up in the sunshine, the cold morning start was but a distant memory at this point. As the crowds once more showed up, we got back in Odie and drove to our campground inside the electric fence. Yes, our campground is surrounded by a 7,000 volt electric fence in order to keep the bears out. Even the cattle guard that you drive over as you enter the campground is electrified and when riding a bike or on foot, ...
Johnston Canyon & The Inkpots
... great care not to slip and fall (that's where my handy trekking poles became lifesavers).
Johnston Canyon is situated about 18 km (12 miles) northwest of Banff, just off the Trans-Canada Highway on the old and scenic Bow Valley Parkway. There are few roads that show the beauty of glacial sculpting better than this one. The road winds through the valley and one of the ...
Ski Louise
... the hill and snowboarded down the back side to the Larch Lift. Ski Louise doesn't have as many lifts as Sunshine, but the runs are much longer and it doesn't have as many flat sections. After doing half a dozen runs down from the Larch lift, we caught another lift back up to the top of the hill and snowboarded down the front side to have lunch.
The Lake Louise ski lodge is much bigger than the Sunshine one and we were in a separate area which was less crowded. ...