Canmore Mountain Lodge

10 day trip from Kamloops, BC to a Lodge in the Rockies, mountains, rocks, flowers, animals, birds, roads, Badlands, Drumheller, dinosaurs, B & Bs, grain elevators, windmils, barns, Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump, Rocky Mountain Trench area.

I arrived in Canmore around lunchtime and was met by a staff person who brought me out to Rocky Mountain Ski Lodge where I would I be employed as a housekeeper for the summer months.  The lodge was located on the edge of town and as I didn't have a ...

... at our very grand accommodation at the Platinum Suites, Grand Canadian Resort.  We are at the foot of yet another Rocky Mountain, with spectacular scenery to wake up to tomorrow before we have a day trip to Banff and further explore Canmore. ...

My Great Uncle is back from ...

A weekend ...

The Bear and the ...

Hockey Game and a weekend in the ...

... animal. We did sufficiently gape our way around the Banff Springs Hotel which is every bit as posh as I have heard described. From Canmore we made our way to Lake Louise where I finally strapped on some downhill skis and headed to the hills. I had ...

... from Germany left today and another couple arrived from the Netherlands.  We drove around the Nordic Centre Park and up the mountain a little.  We finally saw wildlife!  We saw a family of mountain goats and a deer on the way back ...

... Factory.  We stopped at a few stores before heading back to the car.  We drove to see the Hoodoos and then to Tunnel Mountain.  We saw a trail that went up the mountain so we decided to hike it.  As we climbed, the view just got better ...

... , elk, eagles, deer and even brief glimpses of bears (from the safety of the car)! There are also cougars, big horned sheep and mountain goats, but I haven't see any of those yet. Needless to say my camera is full of pictures of lakes, mountains, more ...

... Banff at lunchtime, and Canmore at dinnertime. After breakfast, we headed to Banff and started with a gondola ride up Sulphur Mountain  http://www.explorerockies.com/banff-gondola/ .  I believe we had perfect timing because when we stepped off ...

... lights glowing. I'm walking up tunnel mountain towards home after going to Hayley and Andy's Engagement Party. About 3/4's up the mountain I hear a rather high pitched howl from the tree line on my right. Than another howl starts up while the other ...

... they came straight out of a John Wayne movie!! After an uneventful drive, we arrived at our hotel; Rocky Mountain Ski Lodge at about 5.00 pm. It is in Canmore, about 4 kms from the Banff National Park Gates. All the people that work in the Park live in ...

... off early to drive north through Banff National Park to Lake Louise and begin our trip westward to Vancouver.The concierge at the Canmore Mountain Inn gave us some sheets of paper showing where they had had recent wildlife sightings in the park, which was ...

... into the "ladies" shower since the men's was broken. We took our time driving home, stopping in Golden to eat at Heather Mountain Lodge, where our adventure first begun...only to find out that they don't serve lunch! haha. We carried on to Canmore and ...