Canada's really just got one highway you need to use. The Transcanada highway, hwy 1. Once you leave Calgary, you encounter bales of hay and then a little while past that, you start to see Banff. This is the first viewpoint before you even enter the park. It's only about an hour from Calgary.
Our first task was to hike 8.4 miles into the woods to our cabin. This is about mile 3-4 @ Redearth Creek. Notice how on the hike in it's sunny....there are no pictures of the hike out because it rained and we had to proceed in our ponchos.
Our destination is Shadow Lake. This is the first of many many many pictures of various alpine lakes. They're created by glaciers and supposedly unspoiled by man. It was hot that day, 80 degrees and we went swimming in the lake with some German tourists. The thunderstorms would start that night and never really go away.
From Shadow Lake you can take some more hikes. We hiked up to a pass at 7500 feet. Here's the first of many pictures of various alpine meadows. C's muling our stuff around while I carry a daypack.
And from the pass, we followed a "caribou trail" straight up a mountain, past the treeline into no man's land. It was so steep you couldn't stand straight, and on the descent I actually just slid down the hillside. The trail actually leads up higher, it's called the
Copper Mountain Scramble (random guy's site + he actually went all the way up). But from here you can see Shadow Lake below. And the shales covering the mountains. Giant spiders lived under those shales.
And the next day we walked out.
Our first task was to hike 8.4 miles into the woods to our cabin. This is about mile 3-4 @ Redearth Creek. Notice how on the hike in it's sunny....there are no pictures of the hike out because it rained and we had to proceed in our ponchos.
Our destination is Shadow Lake. This is the first of many many many pictures of various alpine lakes. They're created by glaciers and supposedly unspoiled by man. It was hot that day, 80 degrees and we went swimming in the lake with some German tourists. The thunderstorms would start that night and never really go away.
From Shadow Lake you can take some more hikes. We hiked up to a pass at 7500 feet. Here's the first of many pictures of various alpine meadows. C's muling our stuff around while I carry a daypack.
And from the pass, we followed a "caribou trail" straight up a mountain, past the treeline into no man's land. It was so steep you couldn't stand straight, and on the descent I actually just slid down the hillside. The trail actually leads up higher, it's called the Copper Mountain Scramble (random guy's site + he actually went all the way up). But from here you can see Shadow Lake below. And the shales covering the mountains. Giant spiders lived under those shales.
And the next day we walked out.
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