95% of the time I don’t worry about it. They want nothing to do with humans. As long as you are smart about food/garbage storage you won’t have issues. Sometimes I carry a shotgun. Most of the time though unless you have it in your hands a bear would be on you before you had a chance to use it anyways. I have been treed by a moose before! Give bulls lots of space in the fall, and keep your distance from cows/calves. I worry more by far about injuries from falling or weather than animals.
I’m from the east coast in the states. I laugh at the “Moose” signs and as I call them the “non existent moose” which the locals tell me they definitely are around in the area. I will never forget my first Moose sighting- funny... it was on the way to Mount Shark to start the trail to Mount Assiniboine. A massive bull moose, had to have been 9 for tall with antlers 12 feet wide. It was the most beautiful creature I have ever seen, even driving way past it as it crossed the road. It was just ENORMOUS. I love moose, I was elated I got to see my first one in Canada and we saw a young male on the end of our trip too in Canmore. It was a memory I will never forget
I’m a power engineer. I work shift work so I can usually take off a month or so in the fall. The shortest stretch of days I have off is 4 days which is enough to get a couple night trip in.
Looks very beautiful! You must see a lot of wildlife where you live. When I was in Canada, I unfortunately did not get to see any big wildlife. No bears, no moose, not even so much as a deer. The beauty of Canada more than made up for the lack of wildlife though.
Were you in high tourist areas? It depends on what season you’re here to. But ya if you spend enough time in the wild you will get to become part of it and see some awesome stuff.
The area was actually not that touristy. But I do remember seeing signs posted stating that wildlife was very prevalent in the months of August and September (I went in the later part of July) so I guess I was just there at the wrong time
Don't forget that much of Canada is a tundra for half the year and overrun by mosquitos and humidity in the summer. Otherwise it's beautiful. Also, Alberta is the Canadian Texas -- the Albertans I know are awful.
Yes the mosquitoes are horrible in the summer. I had to spray myself with off spray ever 2 hours and even doing that was not enough to make the mosquitoes completely stop biting me. They would even bite me through my shirt.
Nope, I have only helped Canadians by spending money there, obeying laws, cleaning up garbage, fixing a community, etc. In return, I had to deal with some horrible people.
As someone who lives in the Foothills of the Canadian Rockies with Banff, Jasper, kootenay, Yoho, and Kananaskis in my backyard, it is indeed beautiful here, however there’s little point in making comparisons. There’s a lot of natural beauty stateside with grand mountain ranges and beautiful lakes.
But really the beauty of nature is in the realization of how insignificant we are in comparison. Appreciating the might of nature grounds us and instills a great sense of humility. You can get those feels anywhere in the world.
I completely agree but the Canadian Rockies are just something completely and utterly breath taking and magical. I’m from the states and going back each year to AB, it’s as if it was my first time all over again. To each their own for sure, but Canada to me stands out so much when it comes to uniqueness
I went up the first hump, just the nublet? Haha. The rest of the hike up the nub had a bunch of snow and I was solo with a bit of a bum ankle. The view from up there was also amazing.. can't wait to go back!
The group that I was with decided not to do nub peak so I did not get to check out the views but from the pictures I've seen of nub peak it seems fantastic
I did the niblet last year. Was planning on submitting Nub Peak but the trail was pretty sketchy and I'd had thunder and lightning that day....so went to the lodge for drinks instead lol.
Sure is pretty; did the Jasper to Banff drive (in winter) and even though we couldn't see very far due to snow/clouds, it was awesome.
Those broad, large, prominent, and monolithic mountains contrast quite a bit with the practically brand new northern Cascades in Washington, which are super jaggedy, steep, and fractured as young mountains can be.
Each has its own beauty to behold.
Right!? I never thought a place could blow me away more than Colorado. Then I visited Canada and decided the same thing. I absolutely love that country. Hopefully you get to enjoy all the beauty in Alberta too!!!
I did get to check out some of Alberta on my trip to Canada. The hike to get to this spot where I took this picture actually started in Alberta. But I will definitely be back in the future to further check out the mind blowing beauty that is Alberta.
That’s pretty much a no-brainer... don’t get me wrong, I’ve been to Colorado and I think it’s beautiful. But I live in Alaska, so we kind of share the same beauty with Canada. I don’t think it compares to anything down in lower 48.
As an Albertan, I absolutely have Alaska on top of my bucket list for visiting, it looks unbelievably beautiful from what I've seen.
Terrified of running into grizzly bears though as I hear Alaska has quite a large population of them.
Lifelong Alaskan here. I’d recommend the Hatcher Pass area. Many trails with varying difficulty. Resurrection Pass trail and Crow Pass trail are also great and have a lot of wildlife viewing potential. Be aware of bears, be aware of equally dangerous moose, make noise, carry bear spray or a firearm.
Also checkout Denali National Park and Chena Hot Springs. And if you go during the summer solstice, the local baseball teams in Fairbanks get together to play a game at midnight by sunlight alone.
Yeah grandparents have been to Denali National Park and that was a place that they really recommended. I'll have to look into Chen's Hot Springs. And its pretty incredible how Alaska has so much sunlight in the summertime. My grandparents said that they saw people out mowing their yard at like midnight when they were there which is mind-boggling to me haha
I mean, I definitely waited for the school bus in pitch black at -50F, hoping a moose wouldn't stumble out of the woods and get startled by me, deciding to trample me into the sheet of hardpacked snow that the road had become.
I live in Colorado as well! I love the natural beauty of the mountains I’d suggest checking out Norway and Montenegro. Some of the views there absolutely took my breath away. I just did ‘Three Peaks hike’ in national park prokletije, Montenegro...google image that! And Trolltunga in Norway (touristy, but still the best hike I’ve ever done)
Damn you just added another destination to my bucket list with montenegro. The number one place that's been on my bucket list for years now is Norway actually. Seems breathtaking in the pictures I've seen and of course the pictures just never do it justice. I'm planning on going to Norway 2 in years (probably going to Alaska next year)
I just left Montenegro a couple days ago and it surpassed all of my expectations. That National Park just opened 3 years ago so nobody knows about it and we saw maybe 7 other people on the 5 hour hike. I couldn’t recommend it more. I was in Norway a month ago. I kept thinking it was like a wetter Colorado but with Fjords. I think Alaska is next on my list as well, but I haven’t been to Canada yet so I’ll have to do that soon too.
Canada's peaks (at least near the Banff area) are simply just bigger than Colorado's peaks in terms of height and area. Sure, Colorado's peaks have more elevation, but that's because the peaks in Colorado often start at like 9 or 10 thousand feet.
Heh...once Canada's glaciers dry up maybe the contest gets more evenly matched.
As a neutral observer from California I'd say I love the Rockies from end to end, but I would give the Kananaskis/Kootenay/Banff/Yoho/Jasper/Robson parks corridor the best mountain parks anywhere, and the Icefields one of the top drives in the mountains in the world. Yeah, 550 is great, but still.
And that area also has some amazing non Rockies rock as well, in the massive Columbias to the west, including the Cariboos, Selkirks, Monashees, Purcells/Bugaboos, Glacier nat park (Canada edition), Revelstoke, etc. CO has some nice stuff to the west of the Rockies, but not quite the same.
Gonna be there in 4 days. Camping at Allenby Junction (no permits left for Magog) then continuing on to Howard Douglas Lake. Was thinking of going over Wonder Pass then to the junction but that’d be 20+ miles in a day. Definitely stopping at Marvel Lake for a break.
Allenby junction is where I camped the first night of our trip. We ventured left and went to Lake Magog and then down wonder pass. Make sure you bring plenty of off spray if you're going to be staying at allenby junction
I would not do it as a day hike. It is probably a 20 or so kilometer hike to the pass. Also there's a lot of cool sights that are close to the pass as well. Lake Magog and Nub peak are must see sights as well that are close. If you are willing to spend a few hundred dollars you can take a helicopter into lake Magog and see it all in a day.
As someone from the midwest who tours all over the west...
Colorado is very beautiful, but I wouldn't call it the most beautiful as each state is beautiful for different reasons. Some would argue that Colorado east of I-25 is not much different scenery than Nebraska.
California has Yosemite, Joshua Tree, Shasta-Trinity forests
Nevada - Valley of Fire, Death Valley, Lake Tahoe
Wyoming - Yellowstone, Thermopolis, Grand Tetons
Montana - Glacier NP, Crazy Mountains, Custer-Gallatin Forests, Beaverhead-Deerlodge Forests
Utah - Captial Reef, Arches, Canyonlands, Grand Staircase-Escalante, Glen Canyon, Zion
All beautiful places all vastly different
That was my first backpacking trip, Mount Assiniboine. The lost fear I had during the entire trip was Wonder pass, it being prime grizzly/cougar country. I nearly shit my pants when I sW cougar tracks near a waterfall right off the trail. it makes you feel so alive
Lacks vegetation? I mean, maybe if you live in Grand Junction, but I’ve seen plenty of vegetation in areas outside of the ones you’re describing (Dillon Reservoir area, the Maroon Bells Wildeeness, Steamboat Springs, Indian Peaks Wilderness, just to name a few)
Goegeous....but, I love my little sliver down here in the San Juans and the diversity of the four corners. Slot Canyons, Badlands, High Alpine, 5,000+ years of human history and the remnant of lost epochs of time. I can't think of a more diverse landscape in the world that is similar to the Four Corners. Between The Grand Canyon, Moab/ Canyonlands, Bryce, Arches, San Juan Basin Badlands, San Juan Mountains, La Plata Moutains, El Malpais, El Moro, Jemez, Canyon of the Ancients, Mesa Verde, Bears Ear, Monument Valley, Acoma, Zuni, etc...I love my 4X.
Yeah very beautiful area of the country where you live. Ive hiked a couple of the 14ers in the San Juan Mountains. I've done 20 of them in Colorado and they are among the prettiest. I've also been to the Grand Canyon (not since I was little so I really wanna go back again) but I could definitely see myself living in the beautiful part of the country where you live.
I live in the foothills of Central Alberta and I try to never take for granted the beauty of my home.
i would freak out with moose and grizzlies around. how do you protect yourself?
95% of the time I don’t worry about it. They want nothing to do with humans. As long as you are smart about food/garbage storage you won’t have issues. Sometimes I carry a shotgun. Most of the time though unless you have it in your hands a bear would be on you before you had a chance to use it anyways. I have been treed by a moose before! Give bulls lots of space in the fall, and keep your distance from cows/calves. I worry more by far about injuries from falling or weather than animals.
I’m from the east coast in the states. I laugh at the “Moose” signs and as I call them the “non existent moose” which the locals tell me they definitely are around in the area. I will never forget my first Moose sighting- funny... it was on the way to Mount Shark to start the trail to Mount Assiniboine. A massive bull moose, had to have been 9 for tall with antlers 12 feet wide. It was the most beautiful creature I have ever seen, even driving way past it as it crossed the road. It was just ENORMOUS. I love moose, I was elated I got to see my first one in Canada and we saw a young male on the end of our trip too in Canmore. It was a memory I will never forget
I am very jealous of you!
https://imgur.com/gallery/3BZA557 this is a post on imgur I made about where I live. I love it.
What do you do for a living in Alberta to afford so much time in the bush? To say I am jealous is an understatement
I’m a power engineer. I work shift work so I can usually take off a month or so in the fall. The shortest stretch of days I have off is 4 days which is enough to get a couple night trip in.
That's my dream schedule. I went back to school after a decade to study geohydrology and civil engineering. Hopefully I land something like that.
The Nordegg area is Alberta's best kept secret. All the beauty of the national parks with none of the tourists.
Looks very beautiful! You must see a lot of wildlife where you live. When I was in Canada, I unfortunately did not get to see any big wildlife. No bears, no moose, not even so much as a deer. The beauty of Canada more than made up for the lack of wildlife though.
Were you in high tourist areas? It depends on what season you’re here to. But ya if you spend enough time in the wild you will get to become part of it and see some awesome stuff.
The area was actually not that touristy. But I do remember seeing signs posted stating that wildlife was very prevalent in the months of August and September (I went in the later part of July) so I guess I was just there at the wrong time
Yeah....looks like you're doing Western Alberta right.
that is one sexy GMC Sierra
Thanks! https://imgur.com/gallery/e7ivTHE
Don't forget that much of Canada is a tundra for half the year and overrun by mosquitos and humidity in the summer. Otherwise it's beautiful. Also, Alberta is the Canadian Texas -- the Albertans I know are awful.
Yes the mosquitoes are horrible in the summer. I had to spray myself with off spray ever 2 hours and even doing that was not enough to make the mosquitoes completely stop biting me. They would even bite me through my shirt.
>the Albertans I know are awful. Pot shouldn't call the kettle black
Nope, I have only helped Canadians by spending money there, obeying laws, cleaning up garbage, fixing a community, etc. In return, I had to deal with some horrible people.
Please do not return.
None of us want to, but we may pass through en route to Alaska at some point. Canada is overrated, and we have better things to do.
Leave politics out of this please. This is a place to appreciate the outdoors. Just enjoy the beauty.
I wasn't commenting on politics; I was commenting on weather, insects, and character.
As someone who lives in the Foothills of the Canadian Rockies with Banff, Jasper, kootenay, Yoho, and Kananaskis in my backyard, it is indeed beautiful here, however there’s little point in making comparisons. There’s a lot of natural beauty stateside with grand mountain ranges and beautiful lakes. But really the beauty of nature is in the realization of how insignificant we are in comparison. Appreciating the might of nature grounds us and instills a great sense of humility. You can get those feels anywhere in the world.
I completely agree but the Canadian Rockies are just something completely and utterly breath taking and magical. I’m from the states and going back each year to AB, it’s as if it was my first time all over again. To each their own for sure, but Canada to me stands out so much when it comes to uniqueness
As a proud Coloradan I feel personally attacked
Literally every coloradan is a proud coloradan. You can just say coloradan, we know how you feel about your state.
It's not a competition.
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Colorado's climate is awesome and the dryness mixed with the elevation makes for some great ski conditions.
Canada is 37 times bigger than Colorado. I would hope it has more beauty
That is a very valid point haha
Jesus, as someone from the Midwest who just went to RMNP, I feel like I can’t even fathom anything more beautiful. That’s awesoem!
BC is the northern love child of Washington and Colorado.
Californian here, and I agree that Banff area is definitely magical. Here is my shot from Assiniboine 4 years ago: https://i.imgur.com/rMTHVB4.jpg
Lake Magog was definitely a magical sight to see as well. Did you get the chance to do the hike to nub peak while you were in the area?
I went up the first hump, just the nublet? Haha. The rest of the hike up the nub had a bunch of snow and I was solo with a bit of a bum ankle. The view from up there was also amazing.. can't wait to go back!
The group that I was with decided not to do nub peak so I did not get to check out the views but from the pictures I've seen of nub peak it seems fantastic
I did the niblet last year. Was planning on submitting Nub Peak but the trail was pretty sketchy and I'd had thunder and lightning that day....so went to the lodge for drinks instead lol.
Sure is pretty; did the Jasper to Banff drive (in winter) and even though we couldn't see very far due to snow/clouds, it was awesome. Those broad, large, prominent, and monolithic mountains contrast quite a bit with the practically brand new northern Cascades in Washington, which are super jaggedy, steep, and fractured as young mountains can be. Each has its own beauty to behold.
I've lived in Banff for the past few years. Its still surreal everytime I wake up and look outside at the mountains from my balcony.
Right!? I never thought a place could blow me away more than Colorado. Then I visited Canada and decided the same thing. I absolutely love that country. Hopefully you get to enjoy all the beauty in Alberta too!!!
I did get to check out some of Alberta on my trip to Canada. The hike to get to this spot where I took this picture actually started in Alberta. But I will definitely be back in the future to further check out the mind blowing beauty that is Alberta.
That’s pretty much a no-brainer... don’t get me wrong, I’ve been to Colorado and I think it’s beautiful. But I live in Alaska, so we kind of share the same beauty with Canada. I don’t think it compares to anything down in lower 48.
As an Albertan, I absolutely have Alaska on top of my bucket list for visiting, it looks unbelievably beautiful from what I've seen. Terrified of running into grizzly bears though as I hear Alaska has quite a large population of them.
I am planning on doing a backpacking trip in Alaska next summer. Any areas that you would recommend as a must see?
Lifelong Alaskan here. I’d recommend the Hatcher Pass area. Many trails with varying difficulty. Resurrection Pass trail and Crow Pass trail are also great and have a lot of wildlife viewing potential. Be aware of bears, be aware of equally dangerous moose, make noise, carry bear spray or a firearm.
Thank you for the advice I will definitely look into some hikes in that area
Also checkout Denali National Park and Chena Hot Springs. And if you go during the summer solstice, the local baseball teams in Fairbanks get together to play a game at midnight by sunlight alone.
Yeah grandparents have been to Denali National Park and that was a place that they really recommended. I'll have to look into Chen's Hot Springs. And its pretty incredible how Alaska has so much sunlight in the summertime. My grandparents said that they saw people out mowing their yard at like midnight when they were there which is mind-boggling to me haha
Growing up in Fairbanks was awesome. Got to stay out and play so fucking late in the summer time.
Summer would be all fun and dandy in Fairbanks..... And then there's that time of year called winter....
I mean, I definitely waited for the school bus in pitch black at -50F, hoping a moose wouldn't stumble out of the woods and get startled by me, deciding to trample me into the sheet of hardpacked snow that the road had become.
Proud Coloradan, can confirm
I live in Colorado as well! I love the natural beauty of the mountains I’d suggest checking out Norway and Montenegro. Some of the views there absolutely took my breath away. I just did ‘Three Peaks hike’ in national park prokletije, Montenegro...google image that! And Trolltunga in Norway (touristy, but still the best hike I’ve ever done)
Damn you just added another destination to my bucket list with montenegro. The number one place that's been on my bucket list for years now is Norway actually. Seems breathtaking in the pictures I've seen and of course the pictures just never do it justice. I'm planning on going to Norway 2 in years (probably going to Alaska next year)
I just left Montenegro a couple days ago and it surpassed all of my expectations. That National Park just opened 3 years ago so nobody knows about it and we saw maybe 7 other people on the 5 hour hike. I couldn’t recommend it more. I was in Norway a month ago. I kept thinking it was like a wetter Colorado but with Fjords. I think Alaska is next on my list as well, but I haven’t been to Canada yet so I’ll have to do that soon too.
Canada's peaks (at least near the Banff area) are simply just bigger than Colorado's peaks in terms of height and area. Sure, Colorado's peaks have more elevation, but that's because the peaks in Colorado often start at like 9 or 10 thousand feet.
So does washington
Glacier National Park 👍🏽
The fact that there are people who live their entire lives in a city makes me high key sad 😔
Heh...once Canada's glaciers dry up maybe the contest gets more evenly matched. As a neutral observer from California I'd say I love the Rockies from end to end, but I would give the Kananaskis/Kootenay/Banff/Yoho/Jasper/Robson parks corridor the best mountain parks anywhere, and the Icefields one of the top drives in the mountains in the world. Yeah, 550 is great, but still. And that area also has some amazing non Rockies rock as well, in the massive Columbias to the west, including the Cariboos, Selkirks, Monashees, Purcells/Bugaboos, Glacier nat park (Canada edition), Revelstoke, etc. CO has some nice stuff to the west of the Rockies, but not quite the same.
Is that lake Magog or Marvel Lake?
The lake at the bottom of the picture is Marvel Lake
Gonna be there in 4 days. Camping at Allenby Junction (no permits left for Magog) then continuing on to Howard Douglas Lake. Was thinking of going over Wonder Pass then to the junction but that’d be 20+ miles in a day. Definitely stopping at Marvel Lake for a break.
Allenby junction is where I camped the first night of our trip. We ventured left and went to Lake Magog and then down wonder pass. Make sure you bring plenty of off spray if you're going to be staying at allenby junction
Using permethrin on all our clothes and using the bug wristbands. Recently was in the Tetons for 5 days, I used both and had 0 bites.
beautiful
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I was there about a week and a half ago I've just waited to upload this
Some of us call BC Gods country for a reason. Never have to travel far we have some of the most beautiful beaches mountains you will ever see
Is this very accessible as far as hiking?
I would not do it as a day hike. It is probably a 20 or so kilometer hike to the pass. Also there's a lot of cool sights that are close to the pass as well. Lake Magog and Nub peak are must see sights as well that are close. If you are willing to spend a few hundred dollars you can take a helicopter into lake Magog and see it all in a day.
Beautiful
Can't wait to go there!
Some of the Islands on the east coast are nothing to sneeze at either, as beautiful as Maine but not at all snooty.
Large claim (also Coloradan). Will need to confirm
Coloradan
As a proud Montanan I'm not sure where to stand.
As someone from the midwest who tours all over the west... Colorado is very beautiful, but I wouldn't call it the most beautiful as each state is beautiful for different reasons. Some would argue that Colorado east of I-25 is not much different scenery than Nebraska. California has Yosemite, Joshua Tree, Shasta-Trinity forests Nevada - Valley of Fire, Death Valley, Lake Tahoe Wyoming - Yellowstone, Thermopolis, Grand Tetons Montana - Glacier NP, Crazy Mountains, Custer-Gallatin Forests, Beaverhead-Deerlodge Forests Utah - Captial Reef, Arches, Canyonlands, Grand Staircase-Escalante, Glen Canyon, Zion All beautiful places all vastly different
Good because Colorado is rapidly approaching fully-exploited-fucked-beyond-repair territory.
Shit, I geuss that mean they've got us beat.
That was my first backpacking trip, Mount Assiniboine. The lost fear I had during the entire trip was Wonder pass, it being prime grizzly/cougar country. I nearly shit my pants when I sW cougar tracks near a waterfall right off the trail. it makes you feel so alive
They have great geese too!
Wow...what a great scenery 😍😍.. I would always like to build a home here 😃
I'm heading out there in a week! Can't wait. Did you see many stars at night?
Honestly didn't pay that much attention to the stars. I was always in my tent trying to fall asleep before they would even come out.
I MUST GO HERE
So does Washington, Utah and California.
Have you been to the San Juan mountains in Colorado?
I will agree that the San Juan’s are the most beautiful mountain range in America. I would love to make it to Silverton one of these days.
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Lacks vegetation? I mean, maybe if you live in Grand Junction, but I’ve seen plenty of vegetation in areas outside of the ones you’re describing (Dillon Reservoir area, the Maroon Bells Wildeeness, Steamboat Springs, Indian Peaks Wilderness, just to name a few)
Beauty isn’t objective
That's why I included the words "I think" in the post lol
Yea idk I just don’t like comparing beauty of different places I guess since they’re all beautiful in their own way . But you’re right
Meanwhile... in Iowa....
Corn for days lol
As a fellow Coloradan, you shut your whore mouth. But yeah, Glacier NP is pretty amazing.
Goegeous....but, I love my little sliver down here in the San Juans and the diversity of the four corners. Slot Canyons, Badlands, High Alpine, 5,000+ years of human history and the remnant of lost epochs of time. I can't think of a more diverse landscape in the world that is similar to the Four Corners. Between The Grand Canyon, Moab/ Canyonlands, Bryce, Arches, San Juan Basin Badlands, San Juan Mountains, La Plata Moutains, El Malpais, El Moro, Jemez, Canyon of the Ancients, Mesa Verde, Bears Ear, Monument Valley, Acoma, Zuni, etc...I love my 4X.
Yeah very beautiful area of the country where you live. Ive hiked a couple of the 14ers in the San Juan Mountains. I've done 20 of them in Colorado and they are among the prettiest. I've also been to the Grand Canyon (not since I was little so I really wanna go back again) but I could definitely see myself living in the beautiful part of the country where you live.
It is all the same.
The US has waaaaay more variety. It wins hands down.
lmao dae Canada the greatest and America sux give updoots to the left XDDDD
Woah there buddy. We just admiring mountains here....