Travels with Tim & Richard

Sorry for the delay, peeps. It's been a busy couple of weeks! Tim & Richard arrived on Friday, June 20 and we headed out bright and early the next day to camp at Lake Louise campground in Banff National Park.

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...