We decided not to take the gondola up to the top, but to walk the trail instead. It was a great walk, not too steep, and with some great views and wild life to see. We came across some chip monks and ground squirrels, very cute.
Once at the top, the temperature dropped to just five degrees. We walk to the weather station at the very top where the views were spectacular. We also came across some mountain goats and very tame chip monks.
We then walked back down to the base, the walk took four hours in total and definitely burned a few calories off.
We had a very tasty elk burger for lunch in a restaurant in town, recommended to us by one of the waitresses in our lodge.
By now the clouds were evaporating and the sun getting nice and hot. So, we decided to go back to our lodge and take advantage of the sun loungers and enormous hot tub. We chilled for a couple of hours before getting ready for our organised evening nature tour with a company called Discover Banff Tours.
The bus trip took us a little further into the national park and we saw some bird life, ground squirrels, chip monks, elk, mountain sheep, coyote (Wild dog) and a golden eagle. We were just beginning to travel back to town when a chappie stopped his van next to us and told our English tour guide that a large grizzly bear was just down the road. Within a few minutes, there he was!! He was huge and was initially very nervous of us. However, once we had been there a few minutes he settled back into munching flowers.
We were so lucky to see him. There are only 60 in the entire park, which is huge. Our tour guide had been doing this job for over two years and this was the first time he had seen one this close.
We went back down to town for a healthy dinner of Sushi. A great day!!
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