Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Day 143 - 146 - New Years Eve and Johnston Canyon, Banff

We sold our car on New Years Eve!  Had to walk home from downtown in the dark after midnight.  That was actually really fun!  We got to watch the fireworks by the river in pitch black darkness which was really special. Here are some photos from the night at Sean and Jo's house with their dog Milly!


Milly took a liking to Marc's beer... she is such a funny dog...





 


After spending the 1st day of the year lazing around our place, we decided to hire a car and go for a hike at Johnston Canyon.  The Canyon, was awesome!  The hike was so beautiful, took us 3 hours in total but so worth it! 




We had to hire some crampons to walk along the canyon.  Every person we saw who didn't have them were sliding all over the place.  We were just fine!






We got to walk all the way to upper Canyon with this view along the way








This is lower Canyon.  The whole Canyon is frozen with still a flow of water under the ice and some patches of water wholes.








This is the amazing view we got when we first got to the upper Canyon, took my breath away!!!










We climbed down to the water to try and stand on the frozen water fall but we couldn't get through... as the ice had melted too much...





 


 




 

 






This is the water flowing under the frozen canyon breaking the ice at the bottom.





 





This is the entrance to the lower canyon viewing area.  It goes right through the rock onto the other side.



This would have to be the most beautiful husky I have ever seen!  Check out his eyes.. just amazing!







AMAZING!!!







This is the view of Pilot Mountain along the way down from our hike.





 




As we are approaching the the last week of us spending time in Banff, Marc decided to take random photos around town...








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Here are some cool night shots we took from spray lakes with the very familiar view of Canmore's Ha Ling Peak which is the tallest mountain on the left.



We played with the flash light to make some cool effects... was fun but COLD!!

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