Banff

Lake Johnson

September 22, 2024

In the morning, we checked out a few of the lakes in the Kananaskis national park.  Although the park is pretty, it wasn’t anything like we had seen in Banff. A friend and ex-coworker of mine (Sheryl) showed me a beautiful picture of Lake Johnson, I had to go back and see the lake when it wasn’t raining.   We stopped for lunch in Canmore and I was really surprised at how good the shawarma and biryani was due to Canmore being a mountain resort town.

We got to Lake Johnson.  Although my picture is not nearly as good as Sheryl’s, I am glad that we went back.   We hiked all the way around the lake.   It was a pretty nice hike with great views from the the other sides.

September 20, 2024

When planned this trip, I wanted to book a tour in Banff. Unfortunately, there weren’t any tours that would pick us up in Kananaskis.  While looking at things to do in the area, I noticed an advertisement for a tour app.   I had my doubts but the night before, I decided to check it out.  I downloaded the app and paid $5.95 for the Banff tour.

I went in with low expectations, would it know if I took a wrong turn, could we leave the tour and come back to it?   Would the tour be in synch with my actual location or would the guide be describing something that I hadn’t seen yet?  Overall, I was very pleased with the Guide Along tour from https://guidealong.com/tour/banff-townsite-tour/.   Once we got to the designated area, it started giving us turn by turn instructions on where to go, where to park and what we were seeing. Continue reading →