The weather here has been much nicer recently. The week I arrived we still had some snow and I was wearing long johns and winter gloves to work every day. Now it gets up to about 20 every day and it has stopped snowing. The warm weather has had a huge impact on the river, as you can see from the picture I took from the bridge today. It has risen so much in only a few days!
Yesterday my roommate, Simon, and I canoed up the Bow River with one of the hotel canoe passes. The river is still pretty calm but it will start to get more lively later in the summer. One of the guys working told us once the river is at it's full height you can canoe all the way to Vermillion lakes. Unfortunately I have no pictures because I forgot my camera in my room for this trip. I'll have some canoeing photos soon though, as I'm sure this wasn't out last trip out on the Bow River.
I ended up at the Elk and Oarsman on Monday night to watch the basketball game. It's a great pub with good pizza and a really nice rooftop patio. Definitely check it out if you are in Banff.
Hope you get out canoeing again!
ReplyDeleteand the pub sounds really nice!