Sunday, October 30, 2011

Day 079 - Hiking in Canmore Grotto

On a beautiful autumn day, I took mum for a walk into town to show her the neighborhood.  We walked around town and got some groceries to make lunch.  Marc come by with the car and happen to find us along the road.  We decided to make the most of this beautiful day and take mum on her first hike. 
I had heard of this hike called Grotto Creek trail which was only 4 kms.  We ate our sandwiches by this half frozen lake.







After lunch, we headed up the trail.  We took a few wrong turns we thought we were on the right track but we ended up going up this steep way for nothing









The grotto was pretty cool, carved by running water leaving behind polished limestone valley.






Check out the ice forming in the creek... pretty cool



This is the limestone polished by the water.  It is soooo slippery, took me forever to get up there and I had to do it backwards as I kept sliding back down.







Marc was having lots of fun the whole day destroying peaces of ice and playing with it. 



Although it was hard at first, we really enjoyed the hike and had very sore legs at the end of the day.  Perfect time to go into Banff for some suchi and Bubble tea!!!

Tomorrow we are carving pumpkins for Halloween....

Sammy ;-)

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