One of the best things we did was go to Sunshine Meadows, a hiking and ski area just outside of Banff. We rode a gondola up the mountain for about 30 minutes and then got onto a chairlift that took us the rest of the way up the mountain to about 7,000 feet. The views were spectacular. It was a beauty day. We hiked back from the top down to the gondola station, along the Continental Divide.

Back at the lodge we stopped for some after hike refreshments. It had to be Poutine, of course.

On the way down we saw a purple gondola.

All in all a very good day.