From my experiences so far, Canmore is a small town filled with super fun, chill, outdoorsy people; mountains everywhere you look; rabbits on every lawn (apparently someone bred a whole bunch of them and then released them into the city...they are EVERYWHERE); awesome rivers, wicked trails to run on and 2 full-on frisbee golf courses. Everyday I see something new and amazing: bears, big horned sheep, a double rainbow over the mountains....Five deer ran across the frisbee golf course during our game a couple days ago!
Big horned sheep chillin on the side of the road...pic taken on the way to the cascade river put-in
The people I work with are great :) The company was super busy a few weeks ago, but there has been a lull in people signing up for rafting trips since Ive arrived (the snow last week might have turned them off a bit...) so Im still technically training and actually havent really worked for money yet. Instead of working, we go kayaking: the day after I arrived I took my little pink playboat down the lower Kicking Horse river in Golden, BC. Yesterday I paddled my first creek ever (in my little playboat LOL)--Cascade Creek--in Banff National Park. When Gordon called to invite me he said there was a bit of a hike to get to it....turns out it was 6km! The 5 of us camstrapped/tethered our boats to us full of gear and dragged them--uphill-- along the path. It took just over 2 hours, but it was totally worth it: the river was absolutely gorgeous :)
Im moving pretty slow this morning after a wicked night at the bar (that lasted until...um..5am this morning)...ugh... but am about to meet up with guys to run my second ever creek: the Pipestone! Its bigger than Cascade...we'll see how it goes.... :)
UPDATE: Decided to run the Kananakis river instead of the Pipestone. Realised while side-surfing out of control in the first hole on the river that I had not been playboating since summer 2007 and needed to work on my rusty rusty skills a bit. Dave broke his paddle in the racecourse... :(
