RTM spent Thursday morning communicating via email and telephone on EMS issues. Early afternoon RTM, GDM, BJ and Carol went to lunch at The Banff Springs Hotel. While there we ran into two other coupes traveling with us who were out on their own tour of the town. See that attached photo of Carol, Judy, Suzanne and Gail. This was our second visit to this hotel. It’s a wonderful hotel and having been completed in 1888, it has a lot of history. You can learn more about it at this website. http://www.fairmont.com/banffsprings Friday we had several highlights. Gail and I went hiking on the trails that surrounded our campsite. Immediately we came across the deer pictured here. Later in the morning we discovered the site of the former town of Bankhead which had been built at the turn of the century to mine coal for the Canadian-Pacific Railroad. The town was abandoned in 1922 and 48 homes and churches were moved overland to Banff. An unbelievable feat considering the terrain! If you look closely at the attached photo you will see foundations from some of these buildings. The next neat experience was viewing Lake Minniewanka, see photo attached. The water temp in this lake never rises over forty degrees and huge trout have been caught there. In the evening we drove to Lake Louise for a viewing of Mirror Lake there and dinner at a restaurant serving wild game entrees.
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