FINALLY I am very close to catching up at least with the Banff stuff :) It's raining right now, so I can't go outside and I decided to make use of the time.
Grassi Lakes is just a little 45 min hike very close to the town of Canmore. Susi and me wanted to go a couple of weeks before but ended up not going because of the heat. The day Steph, Jess and me decided to go it wasn't super hot, but nice enough. A good day for a little exploring!
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| The 'difficult' path |
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| Pretty flowers |
There's 2 trails, a 'difficult' one where you can see a bit more and a literally almost straight easy path. Of course we went up on the difficult one ;) Turned out to be not bad at all, just a tiny little climbing session in the end. It paid of, there was a beautiful waterfall to see on the way up! Also, it was kind of cool because there were little streams of water all over that you had to cross. A nice little hike.
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| Waterfalls... |
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| ..and a lot of forest |
Up at Grassi Lakes... wow! Such pretty colors! See for yourself :) I don't know if you can actually see it, but on that mountain in the back there's a lot of rock climbers.
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| so clear! |
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| Little explorer :) |
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| THESE COLORS!!!! |
We ended our little excursion with an afternoon lunch/dinner (?? Is there a word for a meal between lunch and dinner??) at an Indian Restaurant in Canmore before making our way back to Banff. What a nice day. Thanks girls!
One of my last biking adventures in Banff was biking Healy Creek. We (Sophie and me) were planning on going and then the weather decided to be a bitch and it was raining. We went to the market, had a little stroll around and then decided on going biking anyway. A little rain doesn't do any harm so off we went.
The first part is very nice and paved and then there's a little turnoff into the woods. Well. Rain doesn't do a muddy forest floor very good... But also... a little mud... no problem!!
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| Right through the woods |
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| Number 2 (Sophie) of the exploring team |
With a couple of sections inbetween were we had to push our bikes (mud, steep hills) we reached Healy creek. It actually took us quite a while to finally arrive but turning around wasn't gonna happen. Healy Creek is just beside Sunshine road I have seen the turnoff for it lots of times already going there skiing. We sat for a while and had some snacks and enjoyed the view.
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| Healy Creek |
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| Getting our bikes clean again |
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| THIS bridge |
We decided right away that we were gonna go back on the highway (no fighting back through this mud again), so we needed to cross the river. There was some construction going on, but there was a bridge. So no problem! Coming closer, we saw that besaid bridge wasn't as finished as it looked like. Meaning to actually use the bridge, you had to climb a ladder. And we had bikes. Inconvenient. Luckily there was no one around so we just entered the construction site and in a team effort pulled up the bikes onto the bridge and went over. Well. Little (illegal?) adventures. Oops. But how else were we supposed to cross? ALSO there was no sign all along the way saying 'hey, people, you can't cross the river, just letting you know!'. As unusal as it is for me as a German, it is actually perfectely legal to bike along the highway and also quite common. So off we go. Safely back to Banff :)
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| Bking along Highway 1 |
