Canmore - Starts and Stops

Today is a day of starts and stops, good news and then not so good news. 

No worries though. All is well.

Early this morning, the sun provided an amazing display on the mountain tops surrounding Canmore.

A fine start to the day!

After this amazing show, breakfast is underway and we begin planning today's sight seeing activities.

A phone call from the auto repair shop puts a stop to those plans though. 

Good news... the part needed for the Hyundai repair is available in town and the car will be ready to go, by early this afternoon. Another start as Cam and I head out for the long drive back to Hinton to retrieve the vehicle. 

About 40 minutes into the drive, the cell rings again. Stop ... after further investigation, the repair shop has found the root of the problem and it requires a second part. The not so good news is, the part won't be available until tomorrow. All I can say is thank the Good Lord they got this news to us before we entered the cell phone no mans land along highway 93. That's a stretch of around 2.5 hours driving with zero, notta, nietz, zilch, absolutely no cell coverage whatsoever. What a wasted day that would have been. 

So after returning to Canmore, we find the girls have hatched a new plan to salvage the day. Ok then. The day starts anew.

First stop Yoho National Park to check out the "spiral tunnels". Part of a plan to move rail cargo up and down the mountains more efficiently. Really not much to see here but it is kind of an interesting story...  http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/pn-np/bc/yoho/natcul/spirale-spiral.aspx 

By the way, in Yoho, we are now actually touring part of British Columbia's eastern extremities.  

One of the many spiral tunnels shafts

We then move on to see the second tallest waterfall in Canada. Takakkaw Falls at 1224 feet tall, is in Yoho near Field, British Columbia.

Takakkaw Falls

Next stop is at the confluence of the Yoho and Kicking Horse rivers.

Sisters... where the Yoho and Kicking Horse rivers meet

Oh, Ya...  The boys are here too.

Still in Yoho, the next site is a "natural bridge". An interesting sight where the rushing waters tumble down a short but steep rock face and apparently have tunnelled through a rock wall creating a "natural bridge" over the fast moving waters.

The upper side of the bridge.

Water rushing under the "natural bridge".

Back into Alberta now, we visit a couple of iconic sights of the area.

Lake Louise

Does the scene below look at all familiar? Would you bet $20 you can name it?

Moraine Lake as seen on the back of our last paper 20 dollar bill.

Well, that's the final stop for today. We'll see what adventures tomorrow will bring.