Okay I couldn’t hold off to post this one. It’s my last BC / Alberta vacation entry and I’m excited to show you all my last parts of the trip. Enjoy!

Hey Banff! Nice to meet you!

I was so excited to go here. So many of my climbing friends have moved out west, and actually two of my bud’s live out in Banff. Unfortunately for us all, while we were visiting Banff, they were actually in our city in Ontario visiting their family! How crappy :( So we didn’t get to see them.

We took the banff gondola up the mountain and walked around for a bit.

I asked Scott to take my camera, reach his arm out and snap a photo of the both of us. Again, by this point it was basically towards the end of the trip and he was probably so sick of me asking to take a photo of us together. Funny thing was, he said … NO.  Then as he was about to take the photo of me, another woman noticed that he wasn’t in the shot with me, so she asked us if we’d like our photo taken together. Ah-ha! I nabbed him and wrapped my arms around him and finally I got our photo taken. Hence why I’m laughing hard and he’s like “Ohhhh great.”

It was drizzly rain, super incredibly windy and I think I saw a snowflake once or twice on the top of that mountain. Fortunately for me, I get cold easily and since I knew we were going on top of a mountain I dressed for it. Unlike Scott! He had a rain coat and a t-shirt on underneath. Being the sweet girlfriend I offered my rain coat to him since I had just bought this red hoody zip-up at the souvenir shop on the top of the mountain. Yes, we can wear each other’s clothes. Shush about that now.

Hunky, right?

Banff hoody, on! Get your pose on.

I love having my photo taken lol. I asked a stranger to take this one of me. It’s at the tip top of the mountain. There was a little trail (shown below) that you walked to, to get to it. This is at the tip top of the mountain, and to the left of the makeshift ancient house.

After riding up and down the Banff Gondola, we trekked out to see the Hoodoos over at Mount Rundle. Pretty little spot hey? 

I should probably stop narrating these photos because we went and visited so many mountains, and I didn’t write any of them down. I’m sure Scott would know more of the names than I would, but he’s not here and I’m not waiting to publish this.  :) So this above folks:  A mountain. Somewhere in Alberta.

Remember the video I took and showed you all on this post? Takakaw Falls in Yoho National Park. Super pretty.

It was pretty cold there too. Can you count the layers?

Look at those falls. I could have stood there all day and watched them. If it was warmer.

Brrr. I’m clenching my hands in this photo. I guess towards the beginning of September isn’t the best time to under dress for this place!

We saw an Elk (?) Moose (?) on the drive back from the falls. I even took a video, but I’ll spare you the one minute of goodness where it’s just eating grass and scratching its antlers.

We then tried to head back for the night and make it over to Kelowna as our flight was the next mid-morning. But not before we stopped to view the super neat Spiral Tunnels. Somewhere around Field / Yoho National Park.Only trains go through these tunnels and at certain points if the train is long enough you can see the front end of the train coming out of the end tunnel while the remainder of the train is still entering! It goes inside the mountain, not around. Very neat.

I get silly like that. This was in the parking lot of the viewpoint for the Spiral Tunnels. Clearly I was loving my new Banff sweater.

That sums it all up for our British Columbia and Alberta vacation photos. Hope you have enjoyed them! I wish I could have shown you all of them. But there’s … too many.

See my previous vacation entries here BC/Alberta (1) | BC/Alberta (2) | BC/Alberta (3) | BC/Alberta (4) | BC/Alberta (5)]

Surprise! Another hike! My ass was killing me on this one. It was either a 4 or 5km hike, and we gained 1km of elevation. So in practice it took about three hours to go up it.

This is the exact spot where I think I lost my camera battery. It wasn’t a huge deal since I had two to begin with, since I’m a sucker for Canon’s and they always break on me. Now I only have one.

Very steep. Very high up. So high that there’s snow on the ice peaks now!

WE MADE IT!

The view was breathtaking. Of course the photos don’t do it any justice, but I tried to capture the moment the best possible.

Coming down the mountain was just as difficult, since it was so steep, even sliding on my bum seemed dangerous and I was going to roll the whole way down and break my bones in half. I didn’t notice that Scott took a photo of me. But this is what I basically looked like the whole way going down. Strangers coming up the mountain who were incredibly out of breath, even stopped and grabbed my hand for support because I was so scared and shuffling type steps of a 120 year old woman on flat land.

THEN WE WENT TO BANFF!!! YAY! Wait until the 6th, and final vacation post to see those photos!

View the other vacation [BC/Alberta (1) | BC/Alberta (2) | BC/Alberta (3) | BC/Alberta (4)] entries!