Last weekend was local tour company Brewster's locals appreciation weekend which meant that as residents of Canmore we got to take advantage of some of their fun tourist tours for free! On Saturday we headed to Banff for a ride on the Sulphur Mountain gondola. It was a rainy day down in the valley which made for a snowy mountain top experience. The kids had never ridden a gondola before and as soon as we pulled up in the parking lot and they saw the little pods dangling from the cable way up high they became super-mega excited and ran like crazy folk shouting and screaming to the ticket desk! We were pretty much straight on the gondola and swinging up the mountain with the screaming and crazed laughing continuing all the way up.
At the top we donned our hats and mitts and climbed to the top of the viewing tower. It wasn't the best day for visibility of the surrounding mountains but who cares, it was free! And we still got a pretty stunning view down into the green, wet valley below.
In the shot below you get pretty good view of the Banff town site with Banff Avenue clearly visible between the trees.
The ride back down seemed to be just as exciting for the monkey's as the ride up. It's a pretty steep mountainside and considering the snow we were surprised to see so many tourists making the hike up wearing decidedly un-mountainy attire. One was even lugging a heavy looking plastic grocery bag up the the snowy mountainside!
It was a fun trip and so nice to see familiar places from a totally new perspective.
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