Travelling to Western Canada

The Glaciers you've heard of Denms are the Columbia Ice fields, they're outside Jasper! Here's the website for them:

http://www.columbiaicefield.com/

I think the Mods would do good to delete all the posts of this little pissing match tangent, for the sake of denmns.

I agree Blue Nose lol

Thanks for the apology and I wont reprint it here because PM's are supposed to be that,private. A word of advice though,next time you send a pm to Ruez make sure it's him your sending it too and not me. :oops:

heh heh,made my day. Thanks :wink:

If I might add my two cents, denmns...

I've never been on that coast, but the one thing I've been told to be sure to 'splurge on' was to rent a convertible for the trip through the mountains... you'll be able to enjoy the view tens times more.

With just your wife and you, hopefully you won't need anything bigger.

You gotta stop by the Columbia Icefields.... It's awesome

Once there don't forget a bottle to bring back the artifact item "Ancient Water"

I been in the west last summer and I spent 120 $ for a truck ride to the Glaciers, with stops at Athabasca Falls and some other falls I can't remember the name and I went on them snowriders to actually walk on the Glacier`s tongue and drink some "Ancient Water".

Considering I had not even 1000$ when I left Montréal thet Glacier trip costed me about 15% of my total budget but it was well worth it I guarantee you. If you already have a car to travel the snowcoach tour costs about 30 $ if I remember well.

Your choice which way you go,I can tell you that the trans Canada is the prefferred route because thats the only road most know to the coast and Banff and Jasper allways get the spotlight.

But if your on a budget and want the most for your bucks then #3 and the crows nest pass would be a good choice.

You can spend days at the Frank slide or fishing in the world class trout stream while camping in the community's free campground and it's all cheap or free.

Into caves? our gargantuan caverns were once in the guiness book of records for deepest in north America(now revoked)Cost-free

Like history? Canada,s worst mine disaster was here,also our beloved rum runner Emperor Pic,his mistress was the only woman in Alberta to be hanged after a shootout with the RCMP where a cop was killed in the cafe downtown.

More history-The last pass in the rockies to be discovered,home of Canada's second biggest rockslide(Frank slide)

The plane crash-A 1 hour quad ride or half day hike will take you to the plane crash,7 from the RCAF perished when their plane hit the peak of ptolemy mountain and slid down the mountain to rest in the valley below,Most of it's still there and the tail has graffitti from back in the 60's on it,you might even recognize some of the names scratched into it. Cost-free

scenery-window mountain,ten minutes from town there is a mountain with a hole through it.There is a high mountain lake right below the window where you can fish your guts out while the hole in the mountain is big enough to fly a 747 through. Cost-free.

The continental divide,depending on which way the wind is blowing if you take a leak on it good chance it will be going west,turn around and it's going to BC :lol:

The source is at the crowsnest lakes on the alta/bc border and comes from a cave,if your gutsy enough to follow the underground creek under the mountain you come out in a cavern where there is some very prominent explorer,s names scratched on the wall from back in the time of Dr. Livingstone(I presume) :wink:

Diving-Crowsnest lake has a train at the bottom,rumour has it that the boxcars are still full of rum barrells,Before the highway was in folks would traverse the lake and there is some old ones sitting at the bottom from when they broke through. cost-free if you talk to the right person.

Lots more that would take days to list,I am fiercely proud of my area and it's history and have guided for years here on my days off on foot,sleds and quads,allmost everyone I have taken out has come back.

sadly though,Bridgegate developments has found my little corner of wilderness and is going to build Canada's biggest mountain resort here,then the condo's,another golf course,etc. So if you want to see Alberta's last bit of the rockies before it gets developed this would be the route to take. And if you get sick of here then the drive into BC and Kelowna is laid back and very scenic but not many passing lanes and the road is very winding. Lots to see on the drive,you get to go through all the small towns,you cant do that on the trans Canada.

So does this mean Tman and Ziggy are going to stop taking jibes at each other on a thread that neither of them even started?? C'mon guys!