Photopost which doesn´t need explanation just enjoy the pictures from what I´ve seen during my stay! Every now and then it was possible for me and a few friends to experience the landscape in the Rocky Mountains National Park. Even though I wasn´t able to do the big hikes up Cascade or Rundle mountain which is probably why I don´t have the best condition and the trails are closing at some point of the year, there is still a lot of beautiful places to visit!
For example Lake Louise or Lake Moraine which I´ve been to several times or the Johnston Canyon or even a few kilometers around Banff you can find quite a lot of scenic locations which are mostly easy to access and it´s even attractive to go there and just hang out for 1-2 hours and explore.
One time Rica and I were Hitchhiking which was on of those perfect days where nature made you feel really grateful and happy!
Our actual plan was to go to Peyto Lake which is quite far away and as I haven´t hitchhiked before I was really excited about it. When we started at the highway close to Banff my personal wish to go a part of the trip with a truly Canadian Truck got fulfilled and the adventure started. The guy who took us was nice but creepy though. He let us off the Truck kind a in the middle of nowhere and we still had a decent amount of kilometers to go but we kept on walking and after around 30 min another car stopped by to bring us to Peyto Lake.
We hiked up the mini trail and had the most amazing view over the radiant blue lake and his scenery, it let us hung out there for quite a while and to see the weather changing so quickly was the most interesting! From sunny to rainy with a beautiful rainbow over the Lake to my first snowflakes in a while. The way back was nothing to sneeze at either! We stopped at Bow Lake and an older married couple dropped us off close to Lake Louise, at that point we started making funny signs to the truck drivers on the other side and they rang their horns for us every time. That was a lot of fun!
The other outstanding landscape I´ve seen is Tunnel Mountain during sunrise! Getting up super super early was quite a pain in the ass but soooo
worth it, especially when you are having good company. Everything was chaotic as usual and we were quite late due to the fact that Maxime was still drunk and we had to find him in his own staff accommodation :).
Our delay made us ran up the mountain and a 45 min hike turned into a 20 min sprint - It was unbelievable physically demanding, I almost threw up half way but we made it in time and saw the sun rise over Bow Valley which was literally one of the most epic moments here living in Banff National Park!
Last but not least and not to forget to mention: Johnston Canyon.
Finally after 8 month of messaging and chatting on Facebook I met Pawel who picked up my suitcase in
Montreal to travel through whole Canada with it and hand it over here in Banff! Unfortunately I have to admit my suitcase must have seen more of Canada than I actually did! Crazy! ( He is again traveling without me with a friend from Germany who moved to Lethbridge recently. I´m probably not gonna see him again, but it seems to be an appropriate lifestyle for a suitcase though.) Nonetheless Johnston Canyon is always worth a journey. Every season is special in it´s own way. Imaging those waterfalls as a frozen wall. Just let me say it´s like that, I`ve never been hypnotized of nature before! However, we hiked the entire trail and also saw the paint pots which is an about a 3,5 hour hike in total. Again I was exhausted and I should still start to work out to get into a better condition and shape but I just can´t help myself and after a 12-14 hour day you don´t feel like running around. After about 11 month in Canada I gained quite a few kilos which makes me feel really bad but what can you do against when all the food you get is bathing in grease before actually ending up on your plate!
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