http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Banff-National-Park/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from North America , Canada , Alberta , Banff National Park en-us Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:50:22 BST Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:50:22 BST Yes its true even I can take a vacation... but I kept it short. Pictured is my faithful ride. Was a great ride through beautiful country ending at a renowned National Park in Alberta with spectacular weather almost the entire time. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Banff-National-Park/blog-315466.html Hallo liebe Blogleserinnen und Blogleser von ueberall her. Nun Steph und ich befinden uns gerade in der Public Library in Banff und schreiben mails oder eben Blogeintraege hier im Internet.Das ist nicht ganz selbstverstaendlich denn erstens liegt Banff mitten in den Kanadischen Rockies und zweitens war der Reiseweg bis jetzt sehr spektakulaer bis hier her.Aber alles vom anfang her...Unser Flug be http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Banff-National-Park/blog-314736.html 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 th http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Banff-National-Park/blog-303780.html We got up early this morning and left towards Moraine Lake which is about 30 minutes from our campground. This place is AMAZING We have never seen water this colour before. The color of the water makes you feel like you are in the Carribbean but surrounded by the Canadian Rockies. It is really nice After admiring this beautiful lake we decided to go on our 5.6 KM hike called The Valley of the http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Banff-National-Park/blog-303776.html July 22nd. Left Jasper NP and continued south through Banff NP on our way back to Kimberley. The weather was cloudy and wet initially then brightened to be a glorious day. Stopped at all or most of the scenic lookouts and spent time at Lake Louise and Moraine Lake. Dinner at Radium Hot Springs then on to Kimberley to Anne and Michael's house. We will stay here sightseeing until Val and Mik http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Banff-National-Park/Bow-Lake/blog-303674.html Hi folksVanuit de levende metropool Seattle aan de westkust vertrokken we met onze huurauto oostwaarts naar de ruggegraat van het NoordAmerikaanse continent de Rocky Mountains. Langsheen de Rockies strekken zich noordwaarts vanuit de USA over de grens met Canada een onophoudelijke reeks van nationale parken en UNESCO biosferen uit.Ons eerste doel was het internationale vredespark Glacier http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Banff-National-Park/blog-303251.html We planned to take the gondola trip up Sulphur Mountain on Friday and awoke to clear blue skies. The gondola has been an attraction in Banff for a long time we rode the original one back in 1979. A new gondola with Swiss built cars was installed in 1998 the cars are enclosed and can accommodate four people so we had a private ride just as well as unknown to me Carole had never been on a cable http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Banff-National-Park/blog-302880.html We left Glacier National Park on Thursday morning and went north into Alberta Canada. We traveled about 5 hours and entered Banff National Park. We stayed at Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise which was awesome The hotel is nested in between beautiful mountains which had glaciers on them and sits right on Lake Louise. Caroline got her first horse ride by herself Over the last two weeks wersq http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Banff-National-Park/blog-302298.html Day 14 July 17Jasper to WindermereJasper National Park just north of Banff National Park contains northern part of the Rocky Mountains. There are numerous glaciers. Our day started out with a trip to the grocery store to buy picnic items. We always like to visit grocery stores to see what different regions carry and itrsquos always interesting. This store didnrsquot disappoint. Many loca http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Banff-National-Park/blog-302271.html From suburban Calgary we moved back into the scenic areas of the Canadian Rockies and stayed in a great hostel HI on the outskirts of Banff. It had a bar and nightly entertainment so there was no need to make the downhill trip to the town centre. The surrounding sites are spectacular with snow capped peaks all around. A trip up the Gondola and a subsequent small hike upto the weather station ga http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Banff-National-Park/blog-301572.html Calgary 56 June 2008We arrived in Calgary on 5th June. 2 hours after we left the UK. weather was bright and we had a good transfer to the Marriot hotel. feeling a bit jet lagged we went looking for dinner on a fairly warm evening. Finally settled for a restaurantbistro with outside tables. So at 8.30pm local time 3.30am BST Lin was eating Sea bass and I was tucking into Alberta Elk medium http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Banff-National-Park/blog-285158.html We have stayed in some gorgeous hotels that you only see in travel brochures. The first was the Banff Springs then the Chateau Lake Louise and the Jasper Park Lodge. All unique old world hotels with wonderful staff and everything laid on. As part of our tour our breakfasts and most of our dinners are all inclusive. The breakfast is usually a buffet and the dinners 3 courses. Seriously conce http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Banff-National-Park/Bow-Lake/blog-278525.html We are very lucky to be staying in the Fairmont Banff Springs a castle of a hotel built in the middle of the Banff National Park. I will try to take some photos from around the hotel in a separate blog. Banff itself is very Swiss looking and is buzzing with tourists heaps of AUSTRALIANS in fact the only other Kiwi couple in our group is the photo in my previous blog of Brenda and Neil from Hami http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Banff-National-Park/Bow-Lake/blog-277355.html Up early and all in the van ready to head out. Except Lucy who only just got back from a massive night out and had had no sleep. We were entertained by her stories of last night all the way to our first stop Lake Louise. Now this place was something a beautiful blue lake sitting in front of a valley of snow covered mountains just a stunning sight. This was one of the places I had gone on this t http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Banff-National-Park/blog-266607.html From Calgary we headed into the Rockies. Our first stop was Banff. After a little exploring of the town we drove over to the Banff Springs Hotel. Eddy's company had designed and manufactured many of their lighting fixtures so we sort of felt as if we owned the place. And what a place And what a viewAfterwards we walked up to the Rimrock Resort Hotel and from there took a cablecar to an obse http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Banff-National-Park/blog-264448.html TestTest image Top of Sulpher Mountain http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Banff-National-Park/blog-263491.html I can't believe we can finally use a geographical description that isn't Lake Louise The level of excitement I'm feeling about that seems a little sad doesn't it Anyway the reason we are able to use a description other than Lake Louise is because we are now mobile Yes that's right we've taken the plunge and bought a used car. Not sure whether the plunge component relates to purchasing http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Banff-National-Park/Johnston-Canyon/blog-247269.html HeyWe have had two weeks of full instcution which have been awsome fun and we are already starting to see imporvement in our Skiing After having French Patrick for thursday and Firday in our first week we had Dave Frik aka Dave the Rave for our first full week of instruction where the focus was mostly on our own Skiing. This consited of alot of mogul work as Dave's view is that a true Skie http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Banff-National-Park/blog-240117.html After working January and February in SLC for Exum of Utah Iheaded out on the road to Canada. The idea ofspending some ice climbing time in the Rockies cameabout as I was linking up some climbs down in Ouraywith Canadian climber and photographer Jon Walsh. Wefigured that Canada would be a great place to go onan ice climbing binge and March would be a good timeas I would be done with work and he w http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Banff-National-Park/blog-227820.html It was very cold even in SeptemberTravelled from Kansas to Washington DC then flew to Calgary. When I left Kansas it was 90 degrees and then when I got to Canada it was right at 32 degrees F. I brought fleece socks and hats and gloves and even went and bought sweaters at the salvation army. I layered it on to go to work only to find the native workers in shorts and tshirts. They had a fit o http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Banff-National-Park/blog-215317.html Jono and I walked along the Lake Bourgeau trail today about 24 km there and back with over 730 meters elevation gain so a good hike to get the blood pumping. The trail follows Wolverine Creek though I didnrsquot see any wolverines up to a sub alpine Lake nestled in a limestone ampitheatre. Across the Bow valley you could see Sawback Range. Absolutely amazing views. It was windy and snowin http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Banff-National-Park/blog-213166.html Hi everyone Sorry it's been a while coming for this blog but we have had some issues with internet access we have had acess but it's been so slow it's almost impossible to upload the photos and videos. Anyway here it isThere are 48 photos on this one and 10 very short videos. You will probably have to click over to the next page to view all the photos.On the 14th of October we started ou http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Banff-National-Park/blog-211664.html Well we are now back in the lower 48 after a week or so of travel. Sam Erin Shannon and I left Seward AK on the 21st of September headed for Chena Hot Springs just north of Fairbanks. Two other Luckville compound friends Jason and Matty left a day earlier. Twelve hours later we arrived at the hot springs in blow freezing temperatures and under a bright green tornado of the Aurora Borealis. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Banff-National-Park/blog-208872.html More white stuffnbspNorth America raquonbspCanada raquonbspAlberta raquonbspBanff raquonbspJohnston Canyon By Freedom FootprintsMarch 12th 2007Melanie Hi everone this entry will be quite short its more about the photos So i get free tours with a company in Banff and because one of Binacas friends was visiting we dicided to do another tour. This time to a place called http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Banff-National-Park/Johnston-Canyon/blog-144145.html Johnstone Canyon lies between Banff town and Sunshine Village. Its a narrow valley that runs for about 6km which has frozen waterfalls caves and huge trees. An extremely impressive sight in Winter. We even saw a fox with his deer kill and came across some ice climbers. I wish I could have done it myself after doing it in NZ but everything is far too expensive here with respect to activities. Over http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Banff-National-Park/Johnston-Canyon/blog-143107.html Learning to SnowboardAfter spending more time on my bum than feet on my first day of snowboarding I quickly banished any visions of gliding down steep mountain terrain in the near future. It's a quick learning curve I'm told constantly and after blaming the equipment for a couple of months I eventually invested in some new boots that actually fit properly. Now I wouldn't say I'm gliding down th http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Banff-National-Park/blog-139609.html This entery is just some photos that I took that didn't make it into any other of my Canadian blogs.And with this I end my blogs from Canada. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Banff-National-Park/blog-130625.html Espanol abajo...quizas.......There's no real point to this blog other than to show you some photos from October.As I predicted in my last blog that all I'd be doing is working and climbing mountains this is sadly all I have done.I can't fit the photos from work in this blog entry so I'll do another blog for them soon.Travelblog now cuts any photos over a 21 limit and shoves them onto another page http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Banff-National-Park/blog-94699.html .Ok so we have been looking at the weather forecastmdashand today is supposed to be rainyhellip But the last 2 days have started off overcast and then brightened up in the afternoonhellip So we are keeping our fingers crossed that today is a good day as we have a lot of miles to cover Although with the first glimpse out our window this morningmdashthings donrsquot look to promisi http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Banff-National-Park/Bow-Lake/blog-90321.html .This morning we were nice and toasty warm our hotel room even had a gas fireplace and a balcony. Both were put to good use as we turned on the fireplace while we opened the door to the balcony and handed out all the luggage over the railing into the parking lot and directly on to the truck. I am sure this is not what it was all designed for but we put it to good use Today we are setting o http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Banff-National-Park/Bow-Lake/blog-90077.html