Canadian Photos - Calgary

Canadian Rockies Photos - Footloose Trek

Over Calgary Over the Rockies Our transport crossing British Columbia Glacial River Emerald Lake Emerald Basin Hike Emerald Lake Emerald Lake: I did swim in it honestly! Takkakaw Falls Cathedral Mountain Riding to Victoria Glacier Lake Louise Cowgirl! Scenery! Banff Gondola Sulphur Mountain summit Banff Top of Sulphur Mountain Banff Banff: Tunnel Mountain 4,419 miles to England!!! Tunnel Moutain Resort Banff Trek Barbecue, Banff Amazing Views Peyto Lake & glacier Peyto Lake view (mosquitos aargh!) A lake! Going for a ride! Heliocoptoring! Glacial Lakes, Icefields Parkway from Helicopter My feet, A helicopter, 500ft up! Echo 1 to tower: Roger, Roger, do we have Clearance Clarence? Blimey a Bear!!! He's coming this way!!! The Road thru the Rockies Athabaster Glacier Putting my toe on the Glacier toe! 2 hours of hiking up the glacier... bloody cold! Jasper chalet hotel view Yeeehaaah! Save a bear.. ride a cowboy? Cycling fashion... around Jasper Our chalets outside Jasper Lake Beauvert, Jasper Lake Beauvert Jasper Mt Robson 3954m (highest peak in Canadian Rockies) Canadian cowgirl! Totem Poles Stanley Park Vancouver Vancouver Skyline - last stop before Seattle and home.

Canada Diary Episode 4 - British Columbia/Alberta

July 11-20 This week I've been mostly in the Canadian Rockies. There's not been much chance to update my blog and the pc's here are really slow. So, a quick summary. Left Seattle with 11 other travellers - mixed group all ages. Very fun people from UK and Denmark. Tour leader Andrus - a cool dude! Kamloops - large boring town amidst a dry desert like valley. Golden - middle of Kicking Horse valley - very scenic and a place to list for future ski holidays - this is being developed on a big scale. Emerald Lake - beee ute iful !!! Hiked to emerald Basin and then took canoe on the water - even swam in glacial lake! Lake Louise - revisited. This time on horseback up to plain of 6 glaciers. Banff - cable car to sulphur Mountain, hot springs, mosquitos !!! Aaarghh! Takkakaw Falls - highest in Canada - stunning! Icefield Parkway - Helicopter Ride over columbia Icefields - awesome! Hike onto Atha Jasper - saw black bear! Bike ride through 5 lakes region, Lake Beauvert - so pretty! Vancouver - pretty location - not much time here though - photos of totem poles and quick tour of city. tomorrow - back to Seattle for one last meal at Elliots on the pier - then home on Saturday/Sunday. Next stop Devon!!!

Canada Diary Episode 3 - Lake Louise

July 4th Up at 6am to watch the British Grand Prix live with Ed - same commentary as ITV so it felt like home. By 8.30am on the road to Banff National Park with a Starbucks and McBreakfast to keep us going! Leaving Calgary, the scenery is mainly grassy plains and distant foothills of the Rockies. On the TransCanadian Highway 1 we soon arrived some 130 km later at the entrance to Banff Park. With many photo stops along the way, our first real stop was at Moraine Lake - a gorgeous turquoise lake with snow capped mountains. We climbed the short but steep rocky mound at one end of the lake to take in the views. Then back in the car to get to Lake Louise. This popular resort in winter is dominated by the ski village - the slopes visible on the mountain. At this time of year it is cyclists, walkers and tourists. At the Lake the stunning Chateau Lake Louise hotel forms a backdrop at one end of the green lake with the majestic Mount Victoria at the other end, surrounded by other peaks all sporting glaciers. We donned out hiking gear to set off on a 10k round trip to a tea house and back along the Plain of the 6 Glaciers trail. Plenty of views and vistas, snow caps, amazing geological features from the glacial activity here make this trail interesting added to that the flora along the way - alpine plants and spring flowers. Some 5 hours later we were back at the car and on our way back into th city. A great day which has whetted my appetite for the Canadian Rockies Tour which I join from Seattle on Wednesday. I have one more day in Calgary then fly on Tuesday back to Seattle.