Our last day in Banff is spent hiking up Sulphur Mountain on the edge of town. It’s a lovely walk but quite a challenge as we’re in thick snow for the duration and of course we have no crampons or walking sticks.
For the more affluent tourist there’s a gondola that whizzes to the 7486ft summit in under 5 minutes. It’s an eye-watering $60 for a return ticket though, so sod that.
You can’t put a price on the views from the top though.
Cheekily we hop on the gondola for a free ride to the bottom. Needs must. We’re knackered and skint.
We then make our way back across the border to British Columbia to take in our third and final National Park in the Rockies, Yoho NP.
Yoho is less touristy and less busy than the bigger parks in Alberta but we reckon it’s the pick of the bunch.
A circuit of Emerald Lake as it begins to thaw is magical. We see lots of birdlife…
A couple of show-off loons.
And this beautiful grouse who isn’t in the least bit put out when I poke my camera in his face.
Then a couple of wonderful walks. Firstly to the Yoho Hoodoos.
These eerie formations are formed when lumps of hard rock are left stranded atop softer clay that’s been eroded by thousands of years of rainfall. They look like something out of a Star Wars movie.
And finally out to BC’s Niagara, the mighty Wapta Falls. Wend got properly soaked here, bless her.
Our campsite is a beauty too.
Here's us in the afternoon...
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...and here's the sunset.
Nice.
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