6. Day
Golden – Kicking Horse – Invermere – Radium Hot Springs
As we woke up in the morning it was pooring, so we thought we couldn’t go to ride on Kicking Horse, what made Susi really sad. Suddenly the sky cleared up and we decided to give it a shot.
Thank God we went there, because it’s an amazing ski resort for people who are good in winter sports. There aren’t really sloops, which are prepared, there just some trails and you can drive wherever you feel like. For the pros in our family the best thing was the fresh powder as it had snowed during the night. Mario, Claudio and Susi made some amazing runs down some cliffs and steep powder hills. But I was a little bit lost, because I couldn’t find my way and the hills were tooo steep and powdery. But I guess I am getting better day-by-day. Maaaybeee :P
After buying stickers from Kicking Horse and T-Shirts, a sweater and sun glasses we drove down to Golden but not just our family, we were soooooo nice that we took two hitch hikers with us! :P So we dropped them off in Golden “Downtown” and continued our way to Invermere.
When we were there we walked through the village and found a butcher with European food…. =) We had to go in there and buy some Bratwurst and Swiss cheese. The best thing was that this butcher emigrated from Switzerland to Invermere.
After not having found a camping ground for the night we drove back to Radium Hot Spring because we were told that there is an open camping.
Minutes later we were on a really beautiful campground right next to a river! It was really nice! And so was the dinner this evening, we had all the Swiss food with “Gschwellti”. =) mmmmmmhhh…
To finish the day we watched “Lord of the Rings” in our comfortable living room. =P
And as always the motto of the day… =)
“Social checkers from Kicking Horse” :-)
7. Day
Radium Hot Springs – Panorama – Calgary
That day we got up very early… =) (like every day)
We just drove to Invermere where we ate a suuuper breakfast at ‘Huckleberry’s’.
Later on we tried to hit the slopes of Panorama but unfortunately the snow was rather shitty than crappy. It was really icy and most of it was already melt away. The 3 pros walked on the top of the mountains to get to a double black slop which was called ‘Never never land’, so they rode down that way and I took a blue slop (which is the red one in Switzerland) and tried to ride that one. We didn’t spend a lot of time snowboarding but continuing our way to Calgary, which is the most eastern point of our trip.
The way through the Kootenay National Park and the National Park of Banff was amazing. The landscape was just stunning!
After a few hours driving through these parks we finally arrived in Calgary but as everyday we had to look for a camping, but couldn’t find an open one.
So we decided to visit the Olympic Park first. We saw all the constructions which were made for the Winter Olympic Games in 1988. It was really impressive to see that all the constructions are still the same as 22 years ago.
Getting lost in Calgary, having no detailed map of downtown and finding the way to a parking space was the next challenge that we had to manage.
Last night we were staying on a parking that means that we had no energy and no water. That’s way we had to save energy and didn’t heat until we went to bed. Since we didn’t want to spend too much energy on lights we just watched the end of “Lord of the Rings”.
And for sure our motto of the day…
“Never never land or Lost in Calgary!”
8. Day
Calgary – Banff – Lake Louise
This morning we had the same problem as we had when we were in Nakusp.
Our washroom is still unused and we couldn’t go to a washroom the whole night :P So we just ate some toasts and went for looking for a Starbucks, where we could go to a washroom, have our daily amount of coffee or tea and check the internet where we should go snowboarding next, in Banff or Lake Louise. Finally we decided to visit downtown Calgary and then go to Banff and later on to Lake Louise, where we want to snowboard tomorrow.
Once walked through downtown, which is not really big, we stood in front of the tower of Calgary. So we took the change to see the whole city from above.
On the top of the tower is a lookout, and the floor of a little spot of it is made of glass. I was a bit afraid of stepping on the glass because it was 190 meters above street level.
On the way back to our motor home we visited ‘China Town’ but saw just a small part of it.
Could you imagine seeing hitch hickers on a highway? No? I couldn’t! But I know it better know. We saw a few people hijacking or crossing the highway, that’s way there is also a sign ‘Watch out for pedestrians on the highway’!!!
As we arrived in Banff there was a big snowstorm, it’s almost unbelievable that it was sunny and really warm in Calgary and so snowy and chilly in Banff.
So we walked through the village and visited every boarder shop which we saw. We were also a bit hungry and enjoyed a burger in a cute western pub.
It wouldn’t stop snowing so we were a bit afraid of not getting secure to Lake Louise, so decided that we will do our grocery shopping in Lake Louise and not in Banff. We drove through snow and it was really windy, that’s why Susi and me were scarred of getting involved in an accident.
60km later we arrived at the “shopping mall” in Lake Louise.
Luckily we didn’t have to look for a camping as we knew that there was one which is open all year round. Hehe =) but actually it is all packed of snow so we just have energy but at least that.
The children of our family went outdoors for a snowball war, I preferred to stay in the warm and cosy motor home and read a little bit more of Harry Potter.
After having dinner we watched the second part of the trilogy of “The Lord of the Rings”
Today’s motto…
After sunshine comes the snow storm… - Watch out blizzard check the brakes!
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