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Title: Icefield Parkway, Alberta, Canada. Post by: Manky Monkey on October 20, 2007, 09:29:13 PM Sent in by our Canadian correspondent -alright, my sister, Louise & her hubby, "Baggy", who emigrated there last year.
She writes: The Icefield Parkway runs alongside Lake Louise, between Banff & Jasper, in Alberta, central Canada. It's a scenic 4 hour drive & is very popular with tourists & bikers. Loads of wildlife & awe inspiring scenery. We saw bear, caribou, bobcat, mountain sheep, goats & coyotes. We also visited the Columbian icefields Glacier. Along the way the temperature drops from a roadside reading of around 15 degrees & sunny to an on-glacier reading of well below zero & snow! Some of these photos show the Icefield buses -they cost more than $1 million each! They're specially designed to drive onto the icefields & there are no others like them in the World. -Lou. Title: Re: Icefield Parkway, Alberta, Canada. Post by: Manky Monkey on October 20, 2007, 09:29:53 PM .
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Title: Re: Icefield Parkway, Alberta, Canada. Post by: panthershaun on October 27, 2007, 07:58:28 PM Sent in by our Canadian correspondent -alright, my sister, Louise & her hubby, "Baggy", who emigrated there last year. She writes: It's a scenic 4 hour drive & is very popular with tourists & bikers. We saw bobcat -Lou. Gonna have to chain her up then >:( >:( >:( did wonder where she went for a couple of day's ::) ::) ::) :-* Title: Re: Icefield Parkway, Alberta, Canada. Post by: Manky Monkey on October 27, 2007, 08:46:29 PM ;D
BobCat (http://www.mankymonkeymotors.co.uk/Bikespageimages/operation/bobcat.html) Title: Re: Icefield Parkway, Alberta, Canada. Post by: Manky Monkey on November 15, 2007, 07:24:07 PM More photos of the icefields themselves. Beautiful. With luck, Taz & I may be able to get over there for a week next year.
Title: Re: Icefield Parkway, Alberta, Canada. Post by: Manky Monkey on November 15, 2007, 07:24:48 PM .
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Title: Re: Icefield Parkway, Alberta, Canada. Post by: BikerGran on November 15, 2007, 08:24:50 PM ;D BobCat (http://www.mankymonkeymotors.co.uk/Bikespageimages/operation/bobcat.html) Eeejit! Title: Re: Icefield Parkway, Alberta, Canada. Post by: Manky Monkey on November 15, 2007, 08:46:51 PM In the second piccie of the lakes -is this a hotel? Cool.
Title: Re: Icefield Parkway, Alberta, Canada. Post by: lunatic on November 19, 2007, 04:50:33 PM Id love to move to Canada, its just the cold that puts me off! ;D
Title: Re: Icefield Parkway, Alberta, Canada. Post by: BikerGran on November 19, 2007, 05:49:03 PM We had a visitor from Canada some time ago, he said it felt colder here because although where he lives it goes down to 20 below, it's a dry cold and as long as you dress for it, you don't feel it as much as the damp cold we get here.
Title: Re: Icefield Parkway, Alberta, Canada. Post by: Manky Monkey on November 19, 2007, 06:24:38 PM My sister says the same. It was -35 in Alberta.
Living in Canada would be great Loony, but a bugger for commuting to your workshop every day. Title: Re: Icefield Parkway, Alberta, Canada. Post by: klogan45 on December 04, 2007, 08:00:10 PM -35 Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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