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Hiking the Continental Divide, Canadian Rockies

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.

Banff, Alberta, Canada

Banff has many hotels and lodges and shops. There are a couple of museums. And a large expensive hotel. We went to the Banff Trading Post where I bought some earrings. We went to the Banff Park Museum and the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies. And we dined at the Fairmont Hotel just outside Banff. We also saw lots of “Bears” scatters about. My son actually saw a grizzly on one of his hikes. Very exciting. I saw a black squirrel and some chipmunks. And some deer were crossing main street in Banff. Next time…

The Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel is a luxury resort originally built by William Cornelius Van Horne in 1888. Van Horne was a Canadian railroad magnate who built the first trans continental railway in 1885.

Van Horne

Around Banff…

The Bears…

Next time – hiking the Continental Divide…