Tuesday, August 18, 2009

The Canadian Rockies

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We've been living in Calgary for about 3 weeks now and Colin could hardly wait to get to the mountains. So here are some pictures of what we can drive to in about 1.5 hrs. 
Here the kids are at the top of Sulfur Mountain overlooking th
e town of Banff.  We took an
 8 minute gondola ride up to about 7000ft and then climbed the extra bit to the cosmic ray station.   Of course while we w
ere up there it did snow a little bit- and that's par for the course in August.

The other picture shows 
Two Jack lake and that is where we brought food for a pick nick.  There is a wandering trail around the lake that the kids had lots of fun on and a camp ground on the other side that looked perfect for another time.