The Crypt Lake Trail has been voted one of the top 20 hikes in the world by National Geographic and sounded like an exciting hike for us. It involved getting a boat across the Upper Waterton Lake to the trailhead which we were a little reluctant about getting due to it costing $24. We thought…
Category: Canada
Colourful canyons and the best bear watching in the Rockies
Waterton Lakes national park is the only place in Canada where the prairies and mountains meet without the transition of foothills. Therefore it was a fabulous drive entering the park with dry grassland all around us and mountains rising ahead of us. We headed up the Red Rock Parkway as it was a rainy day…
Exploring the Canadian Badlands
So we basically drove 200-300km from the Rocky Mountains, over the foothills and through the prairies to reach one particular place; Dinosaur Provincial Park. The park is tiny but home to the Canadian badlands and the largest collection of fossilised dinosaur bones on earth. Craig and I are big fans of desert scenery and albeit…
Learning to lasso in Canada’s cowboy country
We rumbled over cattle grids as we passed through the foothills of the Rocky Mountains and soon realised our chances of seeing more Bears had drastically diminished. We did think we saw a bear but quickly realised it was a cow and they were free roaming. It was true cowboy country where locals ride horses…
Grizzly bears in K’country
The weather was miserable for our second day in K’country so we did a bit of a drive hoping to see some wildlife. Big areas along the road were closed off with yellow tape and big bear photos so we scanned the bushes for any signs of life. There was a break from the rain…
Wild roads, bear encounters and boating in K’country
Kananaskis country, or K’country as the locals call it, is like another world compared to its neighbouring Banff National Park. It’s an area of provincial parks combined together to make a wonderful, tranquil, wilderness. Few people venture this way and that’s what makes it so special. The scenery is as good as the national parks,…
Adventures in Yoho National Park
The Yoho Valley Road wiggled its way up a mountainous valley and was a beautiful Sunday afternoon kind of drive. It was all going well until we were confronted with a rather intimidating section where the road suddenly headed up the side of a mountain via a couple of switchbacks. So we slowly proceeded up…
Lake Louise and celebrating 8 years of travel
Lake Louise was very similar to how we remembered it; a beautiful lake surrounded by mountains, glaciers and wilderness. It’s the sort of magical place that deserves to only be witnessed by those who hike to it, but instead it’s the busiest attraction in the Rockies and full of tour buses, and instead of birds…
Lake Moraine, Banff National Park
We didn’t visit Moraine Lake on our last trip to Canada as the road was closed for the season so I made sure we saw it this time round. It was just as pretty in person as it was in all the brochures, even on a cloudy day. In fact it had rained all night…
Jasper to Banff and the prettiest lake on earth
We set off south along the Icefields Parkway, one of the worlds top scenic drives which skirts along the continental divide. There were a few stop offs en route like the Athabasca falls which weren’t high but had so much water that it was quite the gusher. So much so that it had carved a…
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