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Alberta

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Alberta is a province in Western Canada. Its landscape encompasses mountains, prairies, desert badlands and vast coniferous forests. It has more than 600 lakes, and rich mineral deposits. In the west, the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks have glaciers in the Columbia Icefields. The Waterton Glacier International Peace Park is a biosphere reserve that straddles the southern border with the USA.

29 May 2018 – Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada – Part 2

2018-05-29cytog64

There was so much “awesome” to be found in Banff, that I decided to split this post into a second part. One of my biggest desires for more than a decade was to see the BLUE–GREEN lakes. These glacier-fed beauties lie right along the continental divide and basically feed all the rivers splitting out from the rocky mountains and head towards the...

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29 May 2018 – Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada – Part 1

2018-05-29cytog64

I awoke very early in Calgary, prepared to do a 90-minute drive west into the Canadian Rocky Mountains. My destination was Banff National Park. Banff has been a dream destination of mine for nearly 10 years. It all started when I attended a local Cleveland, Ohio showing of the Banff film festival. I remember watching an inspiring film about Old Snow Skiiers. I...