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... to be ready to leave, and when it was finally we ready we went to get on and the driver pulled me up looking for a ticket. Turns out it costs $10 for a bus ticket to go 11km, as niether of us had any money on us we decided to just walk back down. Needless to say I was a little ****** about the fee.

We got about 2kms down the road and it was starting to get cold and the sun was disappearing behind the mountains when a ...

... felswaenden oben 'kleben'. ,eine unglaubliche anzahl von seen.

etwas schade ist, dass es in diesem gebiet halt fast imm** etwa bewoelkt ist....es ist zwar angenehm wegen d** temp**atur, ab** die landschaften leuchten nicht ganz so farbig wie es in den momenten ist, wo keine wolke vor d** sonne ist und dann die waeld** gruen leuchten und halt gaz besond**s die seen unglaubliche farben preisgeben! janu....die fotos sind dah** halt farblich etwas 'stumpf'.

... on the back roads around our hometown of Golden,British Columbia. We go camping almost every weekend during the summer and love that this beautiful location we live in has so many awesome places to go. Sometimes we fish, sometimes we hike but whatever we do I will document here and hopefully some of you will find our backyard interesting.

Kind regards,

Sharon

While we were in Radium Hot Springs we signed up for a White Water Rafting adventure on the Kicking Horse River with Kootenay River Runners. This is a world class rafting river with multiple class 4 rapids in the lower canyon.

The day dawned chilly, rainy, misty, and foggy. Rafting does not cancel for the rain – you are going to get wet anyway. We arrived at the put-in site at noon. They served a barbeque steak lunch with fresh ...

... falls, we watched some kayakers put in to the Yoho River.

By the time we arrived at Emerald Lake, it was time for our picnic lunch. This is another beautiful, green lake, but there were too many tourists to really enjoy it. Besides, we had been at Lake Louise in the morning. On the same side road, however, we saw a natural bridge that was part of a truly interesting waterfall on the Kicking Horse River.

Our last stop for the day was ...

... Cummins service center. We could drive the five minutes to get there without overheating the engine. It is Saturday afternoon, but they were open and took us at 2:30. After getting the hose replaced along with 12 liters of anti-freeze, we came back to the campground, poured a drink, and crashed.

We had planned to do a little sightseeing in Yoho this afternoon, but that will have to wait until tomorrow.

... rafting guide had told us were commonly seen there. We didn't see any but we did see a snow hare, with its white feet giving it away. It was an amazing view from the top of the mountain and there was ************e up there as it's a fair drive up a gravel road. It's so high that it's where all the paragliders and the mountain bikers start off from. We stood on the paragliding platform for a look but none of us went too close to the edge!

... Windy, but nice. Supposed to be good tomorrow as well. Went out on the town with about 8 girls I work with Saturday night, so it was quite funny to hear how **** people who had ot work were feeling yesterday. I was dead tired. I hate going out! Otherwise that's all from Banff for now. On a little side note for mom and dad, if you remember going to Lake Minnewanka when you dropped me off here in March. The Lake before there is called ...

Alrighty. Sorry it's taken so long to get my act together. But finally got hold of the all mighty internet that I've been missing as of late. Emailing friends and what not. So I am in Banff. Thinking about this yesterday, I think most of the family I have pretty much all been out here before so it seems a little wierd to write about it, but why not right? Call it a hobby. So the parents left me here last week on Saturday? I guess I am feeling a bit ...

... ATM's in these parts are not easy to find...) The mountains I drove through were amazing- even if they were partially hidden by the clouds. There were deep blue-green streams and lakes, snow edged trees below the clouds, green grass below (question: why is Canadian grass still green while U.S. grass was that pale green yellow color?). Coming into Alberta, I saw my first bighorn sheep!!! I was driving ...