Mount Royal Banff

Banff Springs Hotel Mount Royal Skiing ...

So this week has been interesting! I finished work on Wednesday morning and met Nico at the Mount Royal hotel to join the Grand Nature Club on their hike to Taylor Lake. Unfortunately, they didn't have enough transportation for us so we decided to go up ...

... up tired, I quickly got dressed and walked briskly in the cool morning air towards my fate. Upon meeting Pavel and Marc at the Mount Royal Hotel, we drove up the never ending highway towards Lake Louise. Thankfully we found a car park as we arrived and ...

... to fill in a day quite cheaply.... I'm still not sure exactly who organises it, but it happens all summer in a park just near Mount Royal and it costs only $2 a day.... Anyway, onto things that have been happening since my last entry.... Emma (my ...

... the next morning with little enthusiasm and feeling a bit stiff, but I decided to go on a hike anyway. I met Marc down at the Mount Royal Hotel with his roommate Linda and it turned out that it would just be the three of us hiking that day. The planned ...

... Following our visit to Machu Picchu, everyone needs there alone time.  We have spent some time with another field school from Mount Royal, and they definitely think differently than we do.  They are a group of Social Work students and see things ...

Early start catching the Roam bus down to Mount Royal to eventually be picked up at 830am by the tour guide (his name now slips my mind - Mike?) in his exceptionally huge SUV which was ffectively a bus to fit 7 people. First impressions when we met the ...

...  - Drumheller to Calgary for flight to Vancouver No trip to Drumheller would be complete without a visit to the world famous Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology.  And finally, it's on to Calgary airport for the flight to Vancouver.  ...

... was no problem with the walk but there might be an area we can't get to because of certain dignitaries in at the lodge, i.e. a certain royal couple visiting the area! Also, and this one's for Russell, we were told not to go near one end of the golf course ...

... above Lake Peyto with the surrounding mountains. We reach our stop for the night in the town of Carmine just outside Banff. It's another quite early night tonight as we have another long day tomorrow. Day 223 Sunday 13 August 2006 We ...

... in Calgary, Alberta; the Hotel McDonald in Edmonton, Alberta; the Chateau Lake Louise in Alberta and the Banff Springs Hotel, also in Alberta; Mount Stephen House in Field, British Columbia, and the Hotel Vancouver built in 1887. In an historical side ...

... the way. Suddenly I started to walk up through more narrow streets that were getting steeper & steeper. Theses streets were like a royal mile of Kyoto with all the old style houses & shops out the front selling religious stuff to souvenirs. Most ...

... time driving to Drumheller, arriving just before 12:00. Since we couldn't check in to our hotel yet, we continued on to the Royal Tyrrell Museum and the Badlands Interpretive Trail. Drumheller lies in the midst of a vast canyon that used to be filled with ...