Mountains, rivers, snow, gondolas, bikes, & dinosaurs!

[n7]

Last year, a couple buddies & i went to Jasper to camp & do some hiking/biking for a week.

We had so much fun we did it again this year, only this year, Jasper weather was crap, so we hit Banff instead, & actually Drumheller for a day.

I have tons of pics from the trip, but since i'm lazy, i'm going to just post a couple.


Camp.
We ended up getting better wood...since that wasn't burning so well.
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Hoodoos.
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The beautiful views.
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Hiking up Sulpher Mountain.
There were the easy switchbacks trails. Or the gondola ride for the lazy ******.
Or there was the straight up the mountain route...
We started out innocently enough, just taking shortcuts up the switchbacks, but then we found ourselves on a different route altogether.
Pretty soon, there was no trail...so we blazed our own trail literally straight up the mountain.
Made what coulda been an easy hike into a ridiculously good challenge, especially with the knee-deep snow.
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The gondola way up.
Gives a good perspective on how steep things were going straight up.
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Long abandoned coal-mining area.
Those trees are actually growing out of excess poor-grade coal that's been there for almost 100 years.
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Trail up Tunnel Mountain.
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We stopped in at Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller on the way back home.
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This is my 10,000 post here.
I want to say thanx to Anandtech forums for being a lot of fun over the past couple years.

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

OMG I once spent the night IN the Royal Tyrrell Museum! Yay!!!!

 

[acegazda]

Allright! Lifer! Yeah!:beer:Cheers!

 

[buck]

<-------jealous

 

[Aharami]

sweet! i was never really a fan of north and mountains. until I went up to bar harbor, maine. man its so peaceful up there!

 

[Aharami]

and post more pics dammit!

 

[acegazda]

those are some amazing pics. I went camping in upstate VT this summer and though there wasn't any snow on the mtns, it was pretty amazing. Those mountains dwarf those of VT. Very cool.

 

[cubalis]

I take it for granted... living <100km from the park and driving through it 16+ times a year. I love Lake Louise in the winter, as we spend a few nights at the Chateau every winter.

Havn't done Royal Tyrrell for a few years, time to get back there.

Sounds like a great trip, ++ on using the 10,000th for such a nice area of North America.

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: Aharami
sweet! i was never really a fan of north and mountains. until I went up to bar harbor, maine. man its so peaceful up there!

I love that area.


And one day I will make it up to the northern/canadian rockies.