Just back from Calgary/Canmore/Banff/Lake Louise...
12-28-2008, 07:07 PM
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Just back from Calgary/Canmore/Banff/Lake Louise...
Had a great time skiing, soaking in the hot springs, skating on Lake Louise, etc. The nature stuff was great, even in -21C weather.
Car stuff:
GM deserves to be out of business. We rented a Chevy Impala (in brown), which deserves no ink other than my wife quickly nicknamed it the "turdsicle".
Driving in Alberta, and Calgary specifically, is a joke. The city appears blanketed by photoradar, artificially-slow speed limits of course, and everyone creeps along terrified of being caught of Big Mother. Glad to be back in Ontario and our impound-happy laws, imagine that.
Saw very few Audis, interestingly. But many, many SUVs, mainly in the ditch:
This was on the icefields parkway:
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/1768/dsc00738.jpg">
This was just inside the gates of the Banff National Park:
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/1768/dsc00395.jpg">
There were a few more I didn't snap a pic of, there were just stuck in snowbanks after sliding on ice.
The FWD Impala, to its credit, did just fine on its all-seasons in snow and on sheer ice.
HWY 93:
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/1768/dsc00449.jpg">
Radium Hot Springs:
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/1768/dsc00474.jpg">
Lake Louise:
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/1768/img_6823.jpg">
Car stuff:
GM deserves to be out of business. We rented a Chevy Impala (in brown), which deserves no ink other than my wife quickly nicknamed it the "turdsicle".
Driving in Alberta, and Calgary specifically, is a joke. The city appears blanketed by photoradar, artificially-slow speed limits of course, and everyone creeps along terrified of being caught of Big Mother. Glad to be back in Ontario and our impound-happy laws, imagine that.
Saw very few Audis, interestingly. But many, many SUVs, mainly in the ditch:
This was on the icefields parkway:
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/1768/dsc00738.jpg">
This was just inside the gates of the Banff National Park:
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/1768/dsc00395.jpg">
There were a few more I didn't snap a pic of, there were just stuck in snowbanks after sliding on ice.
The FWD Impala, to its credit, did just fine on its all-seasons in snow and on sheer ice.
HWY 93:
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/1768/dsc00449.jpg">
Radium Hot Springs:
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/1768/dsc00474.jpg">
Lake Louise:
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/1768/img_6823.jpg">
12-28-2008, 07:19 PM
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It was covered in sheer ice for the first 100km, but still a lot of fun.
Absolutely everything on this road is closed at this time of year, so it was a bit of an adventure with a rental, crappy tires, no cell signal and no survival gear...
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/1768/dsc00725.jpg">
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/1768/dsc00725.jpg">
12-29-2008, 05:11 AM
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Had the pleasure of driving to Kananaskis, Canmore and Banff...
...earlier in the year - January - for a day only...a business trip to Calgary.
Absolutely amazing scenery...mountains and roads covered in very deep snow...everything looked majestic.
Rented a Ford Fusion from Budget in Calgary...was amazed as to how well it went on ice, and snow covered roads, till I pulled over and noticed it was an AWD!
Highway 40 a bit south of Kananaskis was closed - they don't usually plow it - so I turned back north along Spray Lakes Road to Canmore. Awesome scenery, just awesome...Banff is a typical tourist trap, I thought.
Didn't notice one photo radar!!!
Absolutely amazing scenery...mountains and roads covered in very deep snow...everything looked majestic.
Rented a Ford Fusion from Budget in Calgary...was amazed as to how well it went on ice, and snow covered roads, till I pulled over and noticed it was an AWD!
Highway 40 a bit south of Kananaskis was closed - they don't usually plow it - so I turned back north along Spray Lakes Road to Canmore. Awesome scenery, just awesome...Banff is a typical tourist trap, I thought.
Didn't notice one photo radar!!!
