First stop, the Gondola in Banff. Views from the top:
The view looking down the gondola cables (scary!!):
The next day, we went up the Icefields Parkway to the Columbia Icefield. We rode onto the glacier in a Snocoach - it was kinda freaky but pretty cool.
Driving up the highway:
Big horn sheeps, hanging out on the side of the highway:
OMG, a BEAR!! (It was having a leafy snack by the side of the highway, this photo is taken from the truck, no I am not a crazy person who gets out of the car to get a good shot, hence the crappy photo):
The view of Peyto Lake - the water is that blue, even on a cloudy day. Kerry, ever the fountain of knowledge, tells me that it is due to glacial silt:
Moraine Lake - the view that's on the back of the old $20 bill:
Up on the glacier at Columbia Icefield - the stone beds are called moraines:
Looking straight up at the top of the glacier where it joins the actual Columbia Icefield, which spans over several mountains:
Looking up to the left at another glacier:
Same view, but closer up (that thick crest of snow is actually super deep - I'll say 100 feet but Kerry can probably give you the actual number):
Us in front of the snocoach:
On Tuesday, me and Tim and Richard headed out to Drumheller to check out the Dinosaur museum in the Badlands - some pretty neat landscape out that way:
And the museum was pretty cool too. Albertosaurus (yes, really that is the name):
The massive T-rex skeleton:
Sabre tooth cat (in the left) and Woolly Mammoth - hello, Flintstones!
That's all for now, I'll be back soon with pics from last weekend's trip to Kananaskis Country...
