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Rocky Mountain Cabins

Rocky Mountain Cabins

Having spent a good night for many many days camping and hiking in front of the ranks of Kananaskis Lakes, Alberta, I thought it was time to leave the RV ago and spend time camping in the camping area outside the track.

Kananaskis in Alberta's Rocky Mountains is the name of an Cree warrior who, as legend has survived with an ax in his head. It seems appropriate to have called this area, its lakes and rivers of one of the local natives, as the Stoney-Nakoda, Siksika, Blood, and Kootenai people of First Nations have been calling this land home for 8000 years.

Located in the back of the ranks Kananaskis Country in Alberta is a small camping precious and Canyon known as the turbine, aptly named the cavern deep Brook, where Maude and a stream of Haig glacier runoff are in a whirlwind rush cold water.

The 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the turbine trip to Canyon Camp begins in the north parking Interlagos Kananaskis Lake Superior, where the road takes you along the north side of the lake to the west as to two other camps worthy of future visits, three Island Lake Campground and Camping Forks.

Field is rugged as you travel in the shadow of Mount indefatigable. The road is littered with stones and they follow an old fire road before heading deep into the forest, once well beyond the lake. At the junction of Three Island Creek and the Upper Kananaskis River is the "Forks" Camp in our journey takes us north along the river during time before the rise of the slopes below Mount Putnik avalanche.

I had always known that the area to be populated by many Grizzly bears, so I it was armed with pepper spray and bear bangers. Even in the lake by the side of the road that had seen the Grizzly Bear walking along the trenches before returning to enter the forest, seemed oblivious to our presence. I was not ready yet to hear the stories of each traveler who passes through its close encounter with the Bears, about Turbine Canyon Camp.

Despite the Grizzly Bears that he had found in the past were well behavior and seemed more afraid of me that I of them, the stories of these hikers seemed to indicate that the Bears at the camp were perfectly happy co-existing with campers, and berries that fed nearby before the arrival of winter. The idea was unsettling to say the least.

The climb to the turbine Canyon camping takes place for what seems an eternity, but the rise be tainted with spectacular views across the valley before going to an area about the same level of meadows and larch trees. Later you get your first views Haig Glacier, flanked by two formidable mountain peaks.

The road takes you past Lake Lawson wind. Follow the road past the Ranger Cabin in Maude Brook (I was very relieved to know that Rangers here), turn right and the campsite is just north of the ravine at the edge of the turbine.

The camping it has 12 sites scattered throughout this beautiful area. Food storage lockers and picnic tables are available and are far from campsites themselves to to maintain any kind of hungry Grizzly bears away from the shops.

There is a fee of $ 8.00 per person per night (children under 16 free). A price booking non-refundable $ 10.00 will apply to all telephone bookings and advance. Backcountry permits can be purchased in person at the Peter Lougheed Park, Lake Barrera Elbow Valley visitor centers for information, or call the number listed (toll free anywhere in Alberta: 310-0000). Reservations: 403-678-3136.

While at Camp Canyon turbine I would recommend visiting the Haig Glacier. The 5 km (3 miles) of road is a hard climb on glacial moraines, but offers a spectacular view of the road to the camp and the glacier itself. On the road you will find a training center of the Canadian Institute of Sport winter, where skiers train for upcoming sporting events.

As for the Grizzly Bear, to my relief that it was close but not too close. The close enough to get the heart racing from time to time as you explore this wonderful corner of the world and just close enough to see them in their natural environment, existing as they have existed for centuries.