Banff and surrounds...

The weather is really great today very clear. Off to Johnston Canyon and the minute we left our cabin the scenery was spectacular, we are surrounded by snowy mountain peaks, just gorgeous! Johnston Canyon has two waterfalls, Upper and Lower, in total about 5 or 6km's walking. The first part of the walk was like being in a shopping mall there were so many people and Mom did this part with us, we then went on to the higher walk to the Upper Falls and there were alot less people and it was really nice!

Very pretty walkways all along the river and up the canyon.

Moving on we are doing the Bow river parkway drive up to Lake Louise, which is just spectacular scenery all the way through, mountains, mountains and more mountains with snow and glaciers, so very pretty.

As the weather was so clear we went back to have another look at Lake Moraine and it was really good that we did, see the pictures on a clear day and understand why the weather is so important. Lake Moraine's views are more dramatic than Lake Louise and the lake is smaller and the mountains closer so definitely more appealing as you can see from the millions of pics that i took.
Again i had to speak to somebody about feeding the wildlife, well the squirrels, it really winds me up especially as there are signs everywhere not to feed wild animals!

Last stop Marble Canyon, this was slightly different in that there were bridges zig zagging across the very deep canyon. Surrounding us are forests which have sadly burnt down, a fire started by lightening lasted for 40 days in 2003 and you can see from the pics that it takes ages to recover.

Back in Banff walked round the town and back at Beaver Cabin we had a lovely gravy dinner, i do miss moms cooking that's for sure, it was bloody brilliant!

More pics here: http://picasaweb.google.com/sbramhall/RockiesDay6#