Hey guys welcome back to the channel today we are doing the via Ferrata at
Norquay mountain in Banff this is the only via ferrata in Banff and one of a handful
in Canada climbing up these steps ladders and bridges while being securely fastened
to the mountain is something you have to experience at least once in your life
ready to roll the tour that we're on is 260 per person I believe there's a morning and
an afternoon slot time slot we're doing the morning one probably recommend the morning
just because it's a little cooler in summertime the weather is usually a little bit better in
the morning yeah we always like two things yeah the afternoon it can be a little more windy and
rainy plus afternoon is really time for like sitting around a lake and having a drink yeah
some of the things you're going to want to bring are good hiking boots I'd wear hiking pants if
you have them and then some layers they provide gloves helmets and then all the climbing gear
obviously yeah they also have have like rain jackets and hiking boots that you can use if
you don't have any with you but obviously it's probably better if you bring your own lots of
layers a backpack water snack snack yeah all important things sunscreen which we did not
bring for those of you who don't know us and are new to the channel I'm David I'm Cayleigh
and we run a travel and adventure blog called made to explore we are passionate about activities to
get you outside and off the beaten path and we have a lot of fun things like this we have
also got a Canadian Rockies travel guide if you haven't checked that out we will link it below
it is basically 100 pages of all of our favorite hikes lakes and secret spots waterfalls camping
spots camping spots activities like this and we update it every year so this is currently not
on it but depending on how it goes definitely could be added we'll have to see will the Via
Ferrata make the cut just did our little training session down at the bottom of the chair lift and
geared up comments harness good to go ready to go there are several different routes that you can
take we picked kind of one of the medium length and difficulty ones the Alpinist is and it's four
hours and there's some that range all the way up to eight hours there's some that start around one
to two hours so there's tons of different options starts at Mount Norquay which is 10 minutes
outside of Banff and as you can see you start with a big boost from the chairlift which is very nice
We didi a little practice underneath the chairlift
and then took off on the path yeah just for a couple hundred meters and then you start
linking it to the cables and going up the side of the mountain and the views are just
phenomenal you have Cascade Mountain Rundle the town of Banff the bow river flowing through the
valley it's honestly the whole time it's so beautiful yeah it was so beautiful and so you
start off it was pretty fun with a suspension bridge yeah and that was scary the wood stuff
is scary there's a few like wooden bridges and that probably scared me the most yeah we feel
definitely more secure on the metal then the wood yeah but very cool yeah and then the views
just kind of got increasingly better and better and how vertical you were going got increasingly
more and more yeah throughout kind of just got like a little bit more not challenging but just
like you're like oh wow really just climbing on this side of this mountain yeah our guide was
really good there was just a group of five of us which was also nice but he always kind of struck
up some conversation like in some of the Steep spots I think yeah to keep everyone distracted if
somebody's getting a little nervous he just sparked some conversation to distract people
from looking down and stuff he was phenomenal we ran into a couple of other guys guides that seemed
super nice too yeah like once we got to the top it was so beautiful we had a break had some snacks
had some water and just enjoyed the view for a while before coming back down our tour was the
four hour Alpinist tour and it was perfect amount of time perfect difficulty like just so worthwhile
yeah we were staying at the top this was a gift from David's mom for our engagement so we
actually did not pick this out we weren't really sure what to expect yeah and it surpassed all of
our expectations like we definitely would highly recommend coming definitely going to add it to the
guide yeah it just was so amazing there's nothing that I feel like yeah I would have changed about
it it was really good yeah if you like a good adventure and you like hiking this is perfect for
you yeah there's definitely a bit I think maybe more hiking than I had thought at the beginning
which I actually really enjoyed like pretty much kind of the whole way down you're on a path you're
clipped in in some spots but definitely kind of hiked down it's not all just like climbing on
the Rock which was nice and I didn't really expect that we'd get all the way up to the summit either
which was really cool yep so we came back to the van checked in on little sleeping beauty
over here I made some lunch and hung out and now we are going to head down to Two Jack Lake
probably blow up the paddle board chill out for a bit relax so yeah if you guys haven't checked
out the Canadian Rockies guide check it out we are definitely going to add this to it because
it's a lot of fun if you like this video be sure to like it subscribe to the channel if you want
more adventure content like this and we'll see you guys in the next one see you next week [Music]