When: May 28th-29th 2011 Where: Kananaskis country Highlights: Bow Valley Provincial Park, Elbow Falls Saturday, May 28th: A major system brought a lot of precipitation to southern AB & much of BC(obviously). The weather cleared yesterday evening & we thought we will make use of the rain to see the swollen rivers. We took the road-not-taken towards Bragg Creek. We ventured further without anything specific in mind. A short stop at the visitor center gave us some ideas. The rockies have received so much precipitation this past week that it made no sense to go up to the mountains. They were all covered in snow or muddy/slushy after the rain. Our first stop was at Allen Bill Pond. This apparently is a major picnic site & a popular fishing spot. S got to bring out her ... read more

When: 28th Sept - 3rd Oct Where: Yellowknife, Hay River & the drive back to Calgary. Highlights: Aurora, starlit nights, city of Yellowknife & Galaxyland at WEM P.S: Feel free to click on the photos to enlarge them to see the aurora clearly Click url=http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Northwest-Territories/Yellowknife/blog-535086.htmlhere for the first few days of this trip. 28th September Shower forecast. We hit the Legislative Assembly for the 10.30 am tour. An intern gave us the 40 minute tour of the Legislative assembly. I learnt so much about the NWT & their way of dealing with things. The building looked very modern(definitely not even close to the one at Edmonton, AB) & took 5 years to build. It incorporates every single detail that NWT is al... read more

When: 14th - 15th August 2010 Where: Peter Lougheed Provincial Park Mileage: 300 km Highlights: Some of the best sights of the Rockies outside the National Parks Saturday, 14th August Leaving late(ie., late for a walk in camp site) we found campsite availabilities in single digits at the Visitor center. Rushing to check in our luck & also wanting to choose the one with showers, we checked almost every campground on the way. And I should say that there are many campgrounds for a Provincial park and every campsite was FULL. We surely did not want to go back home at this point. So, we turned out at Mt.Sorrail campground hoping we would find a spot here as there is a "catch" that "may" turn some people away. And that is the sites are not driveable. ... read more

When: 17th-18th July 2010 What: A couple hikes from the Rocky mountain guide book Firsts: hiking with S(& Amma) for 8.6km... Leaving relatively late for a walk-in campsite at Tunnel Mountain, we were pleasantly surprised to find one(& many more) at 10.30am. Turns out the Calgary Stampede was the dampener taking people away from the parks. It was a HOT day! Not the ideal climate to hike, specially at noon. But we were not the only people on the trail. Haven't been to this part of the park, so was excited to be here & Ganesh was more than happy to strike off some hikes from the book. The hike to Sundance canyon starts off at the Cave & Basin area. It can be biked for 3.2km & is a pretty setting for biking, I should ... read more

When: June 26th-27th Where: Lake Louise part of Banff National Park Weather: 17 C - 2 C Highlights: Lake Louise & Moraine Lake We decided on this trip at 6pm on Friday evening. Being unaware of the campground availability situation over the weekend, I made a reservation. I was surprised that anything was still available. It probably was the weather. The low on Sunday morn was to touch 2C. The low temperature in July/August(peak Summer) is 3C. So, there did not seem a point to wait for the weather to get any better. Having said that, camping was our only option. Hotels/even hostels are ridiculously expensive. Saturday, 26th We left a little late around 9.00am & reached Lake Louise around 11.30am. We encountered quite a bit of traffic but no serious bottlenecks. After a brief stop ... read more