We slept well in our cabin overlooking beautiful Emerald Lake. We wandered up to the main lodge for breakfast and an opportunity to use the internet then caught the shuttle down to the car park. We set off down the road and first stop was in the small village of Field for a look round. It took us a good 5 minutes to tour the whole town which is small but has a school, church, shops and all other mod cons. Anything lacking is made up for by the fantastic mountain ...

After packing up we collected our hire car, a Cherokee Jeep, and set off back towards the Rockies which we could see in the far distance. After passing through the suburbs, and once again passing the ski jump and bobsleigh run from the winter Olympics, we were on the Bow River trail heading west. We passed the Smashed Head …., the cliff where in times gone by the locals used to drive herds of buffalo over the cliff, and we also passed a couple of Indian Res...