Travelogue  ~  It was still raining when I got to Lake Louise in the heart of Banff National Park. Eventually, sun rays peaked through the clouds.  I stopped long enough to eat lunch at the fabulous Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise. A castle on the shores of the glacier lake. If you like flowers, you’ll go nuts [...]

Travelogue  ~ Canadians are very tolerent people for being ex-Britians! They apparently had a lot of experience dealing with the “K-becs,” who wanted to keep French (not English) their native language. So, when the native americans wanted similar recognition, the cannocks obliged. Most tribes are still very poor, however. I visited several First Nations sites. An [...]

Travelogue  ~ I drove to the top of Mt. Revelstoke on a switchback road, 30 miles long. Awesome view of the valley. That’s the Kicking Horse River, a powerful one, that continues to cut through the mountains. The drive up yielded many, many autumn colors. Not too many flowers, however. At the very top of [...]

Travelogue  ~  This valley was very strange. It had uplifts on BOTH sides of the valley. It was like a huge mesa got chopped iin the middle! There were plenty of places to pull over and snap photos when the sun came out. Mountains seem to appear out of nowhere when clouds suddenly disappeared. I [...]

Travelogue  ~  Leaving Lake Louise on yet another drizzling day. Not going to see many mountains today, but come to find out, there were’nt many snow-covered icefields to see. Crossed the Continental Divide. Right next to this set of mountains, is another that has a 45 degree uplift AWAY from the valley that the highway [...]

Travelogue  ~  Ok. The “Spiral Tunnels” made no sense to me–then I saw the diagram. It really is a spiral AROUND the mountain, around and around and around and around. They apparently could not make the traditional switchbacks because the mountain is too steep. Boy, what fortitude those guys had…okay, not fortitude, it was the great depression and they [...]