Mel and Nige

On this morning, we packed our tent, did groceries and left for the beautiful Lake Louise. It is incredible how the color of the glacier water is different at each place. Lake Louise was more like a minty green. Sometimes it really looks unreal! (Tip: if ever you want to go visit this place, be sure you get there early to beat the crowd). So anyways, we decided to do another full day hike even though our body was hurting from the one yesterday! lol We first started on Mirror Lake and then it connected to the beautiful trail of the Plain of the Sixth Glaciers. As we walked the trail, we could see Lake Louise more and more from the distance. What we liked about this trail is that almost to the end of it, ... read more

Early this morning, we left towards Banff National Park. We got on the highway and we were shocked how well you could see the rockies from Calgary. We never noticed them because the other days were very cloudy. So this is where the excitement began! As we drove that direction, the mountains got closer and closerr! WOW!! This place is so gorgeous and it is just the entrance to the park! The first thing we did, got our campsite and ate. After supper, we decided to go visit cave and basin. It was pretty cool but it stank really bad (Hot springs, which smells like sulphur)! lol It was because of this spot that we got our National Park System. After this place, we decided to go on the Gondola, which was a big ripoff! But ... read more

So after Cypress Hill (Alberta side), we headed towards the Dinosaur Provincial Park. When we got there, we just stopped at the viewpoint and it was quite the sight (this provincial park is a badland and it is HUGE!). Anyways, we set up our tent and headed towards a little trail. We didn't go very far because we couldn't see where the trail went and there were also big stormy clouds coming. So we headed towards our campsite. Thank god we did because our tent might of flown away. lol So this was pretty cool, in 30 minutes, the storm clouds moved in, it started to pour, high winds, hail, and it was over! lol It was pretty crazy!! July 8th - Dinosaur Provincial Park The next morning, we went on a guided tour first thing ... read more

After the Great Sandhills, we decided to head to The Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park (it is a park that is share between Saskatchewan and Alberta). The first thing we noticed when we got to our campsite is the crazy trees, which are called logde pole pines (we think that they might use those trees to built log cabins eheheh). Anyways, we thought they were pretty cool because every tree was super tall, but the needles where only on the top trying to catch to sunlight. That night we decided to hit the hay early and get up early the next day. What a great view of the prairies. In the morning we did a few really nice trails in the forsests there, and we also went to the highest elevation east of the rockies! That was ... read more

We called ahead to see for camping in the Grasslands, and a really nice Woman Collette (who was our tour guide the next day) set us up with everything we needed. Our campsite was unlike any other we had been at so far. It had an amazing view of the park and we arrived just in time for the sunset. It was in an open field up on a hill beside an abandoned convent. The mosquitoes were UNBAREABLE. We put up the tent and watched the sunset from in there. In the middle of the night, we started to hear some yipping and barking and howling from a pack of Cayotes (we think), and it was getting closer and closer to where we were. We were pretty scared!!! We were practically not breathing to be sure ... read more