We're finally here and we love it already, when we first arrived in Vancouver and we planned to visit Whistler last it seems like forever away, time is flying past! Halfway through the drive things started getting fun, the snow was coming back with a vengence and the roads were winding. We actually misjudged the length of this drive and it was dusk when we drove in to Whistler. Our first obligatory stop was at the visitor information centre to pick up a map, rig...

Where are we again? Oh yes, Kamloops! Our second stint of driving is over and we have arrived in Kamloops, a town we stayed in on our way out to the Rockies though we decided to spice it up by staying in a different motel. I guess today we really did leave the snow and mountains behind and the beginning of our drive was pretty horrible. The temperature is taking its toll and the snow on the roads is now huge pools of water. At one point a lorry coming in the opp...

Today was the start of the drive back to Vancouver, the beginning of the end but with plenty to look forward to on the way! To start the day we headed up to the Cross Country Skiing trails of Canmore, the guy in the rental store reccommended a nice little 6km loop to get us going. Well that was more than enough, a very good workout! It was quite impressive watching some of the skiers even though we couldnt quite get the hang of skating. I stuck to the trails whi...

I can now say we have boarded Canada! Yesterday we woke up to quite possibly the worst weather for it, plus degress and heavy, wet snow! We didnt want to risk today being worse so we decided to go for it anyway! I had booked a four hour, introduction to snowboarding lesson (though instead of a Discover Snowboard I asked for a Discover Scuba, just rolled off the tongue!) and Olof was renting a board and heading up the mountain. It was just me and ten million kid...

Well we are back here in Banff! After what was a bit of a disappointing time in Jasper we made the decision to play around with our schedule a bit so we could spend another couple of days in Banff. This meant taking the Icefields Parkway, the 230km back the same way, not that we were sorry to be doing that, there was plenty we didnt have time to see on the way up. Unfortunately the weather wasnt great this morning, it is now above freezing so the roads have beco...