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Alberta Rockies Roadtrip (part I): Riding into the Big Beyond

Posted on 09. Nov, 2009 by Kerry Banks.

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Leg one: Kananaskis Country
“Just give her a kick in the belly,” says Dayleen. Our trail guide is growing impatient with my mare’s plodding pace. But I feel sympathy for Hazel, who is 16 and has been humping tourists through these Alberta hills for a decade. If the mare wants to take her time, it’s all right with me. [...]

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B.C. Rockies Roadtrip: The Last Word (part 7)

Posted on 23. Jul, 2009 by Kerry Banks.

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Our final day in the Kootenays begins with a hike. Not a difficult hike, mind you. Guide Steve Kuijt assures us it’s “a leisurely jaunt.” Of course, Steve is impossibly fit, just like everyone on staff, most of whom happen to be female. “Fernie mountain girls,” is how Tom describes them. “They’re a special breed.”

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B.C. Rockies Roadtrip: Pierre, the Queen and the Stargazer (part 5)

Posted on 15. Jul, 2009 by Kerry Banks.

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We are motoring south on Highway 95 and Tom is telling us that he once worked for Pierre Trudeau. “I used to have to get him a red rose for his lapel every day,” says Tom. I can’t say that I am buying this story, but I nod like I am. Joe, who is evidently [...]

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B.C. Rockies Roadtrip: Escape from Yoho (part 4)

Posted on 10. Jul, 2009 by Kerry Banks.

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Twin Falls is a sweet piece of eye candy: water spilling through two grooved chutes at the top of the chasm, falling through air, then merging into the same flow farther down, before crashing over the rocks and becoming a frothing cauldron. There is a bench that offers a head-on view of the show, so I sit down and soak it all [...]