(12/18/00 & 3/11/01)
This is a picture of the downtown of Banff.
Picture down on Banff from the drive up to the ski hill Norquay.
Cheapest motel in town, the Spruce Grove:
Super close to center of town, but divey enough to be slightly cheap, the Arrow Motel:
Nice hotels abound, here is one example:
The Travellor's Inn, close to town, reasonable prices, reasonable quality:
Scenic highways outside of Banff:
Sunshine Village Gondola, which is darn long. Here is the base station:
Still riding the gondola, in the middle:
Still on the gondola, big huge flat mountain in background, and that is one of the "L" sections where the gondola goes around a corner near the bottom of the picture.
Norquay, small little area outside of Banff:
Norquay from the bottom:
From here downward are pictures from 3/9/01 - 3/12/01. Here are Mike and Brady at Sunshine Village:
An Elk right outside Banff town limits.
There are actually 8 or more elk here. But in the picture you might only be able to see a few.
Sunshine Village, big steep mountain range.
More mountains, and in the valley a good view of the center of Sunshine Village.
Big Canada mountain peaks.
A view of the town of Banff from the slopes at Norquay. This was taken from the very top of lift "A".