CANMORE, AB - - Gone are the days of grain fields waiting to be sown and beef cattle grazing on spreads that stretch as far as the eye can see. Now we're into what we really travel for: high snow-covered mountains; fresh cold air and people roaming around in hiking boots and heavy jackets.
The Trans-Canada Highway from Moose Jaw to Canmore went from flat lands to rolling hills to a countryside covered with snow and back again to no snow on the ground but plenty on the Canadian Rockies. We can look out the window of the Mountain View Inn, where we are staying tonight, and see part of the Three Sisters Peak - - one of the easier peaks to identify here.
Canmore, along with Banff and Lake Louise, is an area in transition: there's enough snow to keep the ski slopes open until at least the beginning of May, but there's also a hustle on in the businesses to change from winter to summer tourist mind-set.
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