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October 5th 2012

Published: October 8th 2012

In the morning, we grabbed some breakfast, checked out and then went to pick up our rental car for the next week. We then went shopping for food and supplies, including checking out MEC (Mountain Equipment Cooperative) which is huge and has great prices on camping and outdoors stuff. We were both starting to feel a bit broke, and we also were pretty limited in how much room we had in our bags, so ... Read Full Entry

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Chris and Nena

Chris And Nena

We have been meaning to go on a decent trip for ages now. Last year some very cheap prices came up on bestflights, so we decided to take the plunge. After this it became all about saving as much money as possible. Working a lot, and spending stuff all (apart from the occasional necessary bike part or gadget). We are looking forwards to five months away, spending two weeks in Thailand, and the rest of the time split between Europe and North America. We haven't planned much - just hoping to see lots of great sites, and eat a pile of tasty food. Oh, there'll probably be a lot of food photos... full info

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Red Nose Day?

Nothing like cold wind and a hot hike to end up with glowing extremities (well it definitely wasn't alcohol or sunburn).

Lake Louise

Looking down at the hikers waaaay below

Mount Saint Bride?

Maybe... bloody huge.

Tea House

Looking across to the other side of the lake there were a couple of tea houses on the hiking paths. Probably not open this time of year.

Towards Banff.

Looking SSE.

Lake Louise and beyond

Arnica field?

Handy if you fall over coming down the mountain I guess.

Ugly buildings

So it's not just the Americans that like putting ugly buildings in beautiful places!

Overpriced Canoes at Lake Louise

$40 an hour? Seriously?

Elk! Caribou! Deer!

Big thing with horns! (Turns out it was an Elk)

We went up there?

From the carpark at the info centre looking up to Fairview peak the next day.

Brrr!

That's getting cold!

Pretty water

Looking down into Johnston Canyon

Johnston Canyon Falls

Spa bath anyone?

If only it was around 20C warmer!

This SHITS ME!

Chris Rant start: ok, so you've come into a national park. I assume this is because you like nature and find it beautiful. Then you go and put your cigarette but in a log cos it's just like an ashtray. What the f#$k?! Seen this all over the world and I just don't understand it! - end Chris Rant

Twisted tree

No idea why. Cool though.

ok, let's turn around

Snow coming down hard. Time to leave.

Campsite

After a bit of snow

Breakfast time

Lovely spot for some hot porridge. Never mind the fact that it was around -5C at the time.

The Driver

Done some serious kms in Nissan Versas around US and Canada.

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