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Banff Oct 31, 2010
Imdkcanada stayed here on Oct 31, 2010 during their trip titled: Imdkcanada's Great Adventure.
(Re)Discovering Banff
As promised I went for a 5.5 mile run around "Prince's Park" in Calgary. Very quiet at 07:30 in the morning and a pleasant place to be out of Calgary's morning traffic. Whitt 'volunteered' to drive us to Banff and we got there without incident (phew!). Started off by talking to the Parks Canada staff at the tourist info centre. She was really …
The Journey to Banff
... told to prepare for -18 degrees Celsius in Banff by the end of the day! As soon as we hit the first big snowy spot, Colin stopped the van so we could all have a play! The snow was so light and powdery and about 2 feet deep at some places. The scenery along the way was breathtaking with snowy mountains soon coming into view and frozen waterfalls all along the way. We also saw various lakes that had started to freeze over and stopped at ...
Beers in the boot!
... Parkway drive over to Banff as it is a little more scenic than the Trans Canada Highway (though I doubt scenery is a problem anywhere in Canada). We stopped for an 'easy' hike into Johnson Canyon which actually wasn't to hard. This is another scenic extravaganza so we walked all the way to the upper falls which was around 2.6km in and of course then back again. The construction of the walkway is quite a feat with the platform hanging off the side of the canyon in ...
Glaciers, lakes and more glaciers and lakes.....
... with one of the overall names for particular first nation members being Athabascan and we had just stayed 2 nights beside the Athabasca River so now the falls. Although only dropping some 25 metres they are pretty impressive. We were lucky enough to arrive just as some 15-20 coach tours were unloading. Now we were not long ago on a tour and we know it's great to be able to get off the bus to look around, take photos etc, but the paths and viewing areas ...
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- Swimming pool
- Fitness/Health center
- Free parking
- Pets allowed
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