Canmore mountain hikes

A stunning first day of “fall”. We followed the advice of a lovely couple who saw us looking at maps and gave some local tips. Starting with a hike up alongside the dry Silvertip Mountain river bed. The plan was to walk all the way to the Canyon for awesome views but the track was blocked in several places by fallen trees so after trying to walk around a few we realised that was pointless and so we walked quite a good way up the rocky river bed. As advised by locals, we were armed with our bear spray just in case, but we didn’t know how to use it so thought we would have a practice run at the start of the hike. Lesson 1 - don’t spray into the breeze even if it is very gentle! All I can say is that the spray is pepper and it works! After the walk we had a drink overlooking the awesome 18th hole at Silvertip Golf Course before heading home.
As the sun was dipping behind the incredible ‘Rockies” mountains, we went for a walk across the old rail bridges and around the strongly flowing river near our Canmore accommodation to soak up the idyllic setting and grab a few more photos.
Canmore has been an unexpected highlight. We thought we were using it as a base to see the main attractions of Lake Louise (tomorrow) and Banff (Wednesday) but it has been lovely. Jane has become quite a fan of the “3 sisters mountains” seen in several photos and she added the “older brother” to complete the family.Read more