Alberta Foothills
16 luglio 2023, Canada ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
I spent 2 rather lazy days in 2 different provincial parks - I really liked Police Outpost PP, right on the border to Montana. Finally some blue sky and sunshine!
Waterton NP Day 1 - Red Rock Canyon etc
17 luglio 2023, Canada ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
Unbelievable landscape, rock in all kinds of colors. I waded through the canyon - that’s the way to do it! I also did 3 other shorter hikes
ViaggiatoreWow! But also looks like they had some good wildfires down there in the last years…
Viaggiatore
Tina, man sieht so viele dürre Bäume. Ist dort auch der Borkenkäfer oder der Waldbrand schuld? Viele Grüße Papa
Day 2 - Carthew-Alderson Hike
18 luglio 2023, Canada ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
20.1 km hike, 650 m up… took me 8 hours but was worth every step! A shuttle takes you to Cameron Lake and you hike back to Waterton Village. Great weather but very windy
Day 3 - Lazy Wednesday
19 luglio 2023, Stati Uniti ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
I took a boat tour on Upper Waterton Lake today, again crossing into the US, and checked out everything in and around Waterton Village
Day 4 - Crypt Lake Hike
20 luglio 2023, Canada ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Another day hike, 18 km or so, 675 meters up. Apparently named one of world’s 20 most exhilarating hikes by National Geographic for the ladder, tunnel and steel cable along a 100 m drop at the end.Leggi altro
Powwow!
22 luglio 2023, Canada ⋅ ☀️ 34 °C
I attended the Powwow (dance and drums, competitions, and camping - a 3 day clan gathering) in Stand Off on the Blood Indian Reservation. The Blood or Kanai are part of the Blackfoot Confederation
Coal Mining Towns
23 luglio 2023, Canada ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
I travel along the southern border of Canada along the Crowsnest Highway. Crowsnest pass communities started as mining towns, and there is a lot of history there
Fort Steele Heritage Town
24 luglio 2023, Canada ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
A gold rush town on the verge of being a ghost town was transformed into an open air museum
On the road - Nature
25 luglio 2023, Canada ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Impressions from Crowsnest Highway
On the road - Former Glory
25 luglio 2023, Canada ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
Impressions from the Crowsnest Highway
My new favorite town - Nelson
26 luglio 2023, Canada ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
It’s in the middle of nowhere and it’s super nice! Lots of murals
Okanagan Valley - Penticton
28 luglio 2023, Canada ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
I reached my most westerly point for now - the hot and semi-arid vacation hotspot of Canada. Back north from here. Lots of lakes, orchards and wineries here. I biked 50 km on a former rail track today
Skaha Bluffs Hiking
29 luglio 2023, Canada ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Famous for rock climbing, my hike in Skaha Bluffs turned out to be a lot more difficult than I expected, as it involved a lot of scrambling over rocks
Kelowna & Myra Canyon
30 luglio 2023, Canada ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Biggest city in the Okanagan, but main reason for me to spend time there was to bike another section of the KVR rail trail: Myra canyon with 2 tunnels and 18 trestle bridges
Heritage Museums
31 luglio 2023, Canada ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
I visited 3 different heritage sites - ranch, farm, ghost town - over the last 2 days. Impressions…
Revelstoke National Park
1 agosto 2023, Canada ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Hiked 15 km today to Eva Lake. The special thing about this NP is that you drive up the mountain in many hairpin turns and start right off in Alpine vegetation
Glacier NP
2 agosto 2023, Canada ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Glacier is hard to access apart from the main highway running through it. It’s famous for, well, glaciers, some of which you can see from the Continental Divide. And a wildfire was just behind theLeggi altro
Yoho NP - other impressions
3 agosto 2023, Canada
Also in Yoho I visited the amazing Takakkaw Falls, Wapta Falls and biked a bit. Yesterday the air was full of smoke from wildfires, you could hardly see the mountains and it really smelled smoke. AddLeggi altro
Yoho NP - Emerald Lake
4 agosto 2023, Canada ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C
Early morning to get to Emerald Lake before the crowds arrive. Great atmosphere and nice hike around the lake and up into Emerald Basin, a glacier valley
Moraine Lake
5 agosto 2023, Canada ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
I’m back in Lake Louise and hiked from Moraine Lake to Eiffel Lake, up on the side of the mountain into the former glacier’s valley that created Moraine Lake
Icefields Parkway
6 agosto 2023, Canada ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
Back after my trip up here end of June, with more time
Mount Edith Cavell - 3 Glaciers
7 agosto 2023, Canada ⋅ 🌩️ 17 °C
An early morning drive up to Mt. Edith Cavell, an iconic landmark near Jadsper with 3 glaciers. The hike goes up the opposite mountain to various viewpoints
Jasper NP
7 agosto 2023, Canada ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
A short stop in Jasper on the way back to Edmonton: Pyramid Lake and some of the incredible scenery on the way East
Trip to Germany
10 agosto 2023, Canada ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
You haven’t heard from me for a while as I was back in Germany for my mother’s 80th birthday. And while I was in Edmonton preparing for the trip, my bike was stolen off the bike rack on the carLeggi altro
Elk Island NP
17 agosto 2023, Canada ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Back in Edmonton, a day trip to Elk Island, a National Park only 30 min from Edmonton. It was created to save buffalo from extinction in 1907. today there are 500 plains buffalo and 500 wood buffaloLeggi altro