Rocky Mountains
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Larch Season Banff: Timing the Two-Week Window
On the last Saturday of September the trail out of Moraine Lake climbs about 550 metres in 4.3 kilometres, and for the first hour it is spruce and switchbacks and not much else. Then the forest thins. The ground opens onto a shelf under Pinnacle Mountain and Eiffel Peak, and the alpine larches are standing…
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Canadian Rockies Wedding Film: What It Really Costs
Moraine Lake Road is closed to private vehicles. Not seasonally, not only at busy hours. If you want to stand on that shoreline while first light works down the Ten Peaks, you are on a Parks Canada shuttle from the Lake Louise Park and Ride, in a licensed operator’s van, or you are a guest…