But enough of that, we went off on a little cycling jaunt for the reminder of the week. We stayed 2 hours away in Lake Louise at the Chateau - it must be the ugliest building ever built in such a beautiful setting.
Cycled the Bow Valley Parkway which is the back route in between Lake Louise and Banff. I was really expecting to see a bear on this ride but no bears appeared. The ride was pretty easy, only did around 70k and had a nice meal with wine that night at Deer Lodge which is the hotel behind the Chateau.
(Stunning eh? Oh and that is Crowfoot Glacier behind Bug)
The next day we cycled 160k of the Icefields '10 switzerlands in one' Parkway. It links Lake Louise to Jasper which is 250k to the north...Okay this road puts the O into OCanada! O in the beauty of the mountains, glaciers and blue lakes that line the parkway to the O of pain my mouth formed in the first 25k climb and the Bow summit climb. This ride had less elevation gain than last weeks ride of the Highwood Pass in Kananaskis - the highest road in North America BUT Bow summit from north to south was a brick sucker. Richard make it fun (not) by easily cycling up ahead, stopping, stretching, resting and then hiding in a bush to take a photo of me as I squeaked past.
We did get to see a bear and it's cubs that day on the summit. They were about 20 metres from the road and calmly eyeing us. Did not stay for long but they seemed so calm that we did stop on the road to take a picture.
Anyway, how cool that junior has already been on 2 excellent bike rides and I don't even know it yet.
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