Sorry guys I know I didn't post a video this weekend, but I've been a little
preoccupied and this is why.
It's our last day in canada and we ventured to
Sulphur Mountain and ran into a local Banffite who answered every question
we had about Banff. He was actually the first person from Banff that we met on
the entire trip.
Most people we met were from other countries like Australia. Here's what he
had to say about his beautiful hometown.
I boycotted it until i heard that there
was a bear in it. So that grizzly bear in The Revenant is gonna be twice the size of the
grizzly bears here. So the average weight here for the bears is gonna be about 600 pounds.
In The Revenant it's going to be at least double.
The most likely place that you'll see a bear is on the Bow Valley Parkway. That's the
secondary highway between Banff and Lake Louise and then on the way towards Jasper. So the 93 North
or for the Icefield Parkway.
Here we have four the predators of the National Park so we
have a cougar or mountain lion here. We have the grey wolf, this being a young
grey wolf here.
So fully grown, the paw print is the size of my hand. And then we have the black bear here and the
grizzly bear. "This is a grizzly bear paw?" Yes.
You have to work in the National. Yeah. So like anyone here, like Australians obviously,
they have to have a work visa, but they are allowed to work here and live here.
For the Australians specifically because we have so many of them here in Banff,
"We noticed." It's basically like the second Australian capital of Canada.
Whistler being the first. But Australians will...when you hear Banff or Whistler,
they obviously come for the snow so they'll come for the snow they'll do
their ski or snowboarding season, and then they sort of need a job so then to
come to Canada you already need the visa so they applied for the visa, came here, did
their sort of holiday part and then they found a job.
They have to go back within their visa restrictions, so after a year or two years or however long their visa lasts
with Australians specifically it's gonna be two year - one or two year visa depending on what they get
Which isn't too bad because you can do a lot with two years right. Work here for
six months. Go off to somewhere else or work here for your two years
but travel off to different places.
If you retire and were working here for 10 years as a minimum
you can stay in Banff. Like I know that there are a lot of retirees here.
But they've worked in Banff for more than 10 years.
Anyone like a celebrity like Alec Baldwin for instance or Angelina
Jolie they probably wanted to get a house or like a vacation home here. They
can't because there has to be someone living at the house not like a
housekeeper. There has to be someone had the address because then
it's just wasted space, it's just collecting dust. So Alec Baldwin, because he comes to
the Rocky Mountains a lot, he actually has a house in Canmore. He'll stay there during
the winter when he skis here. "Very cool! Thank you for all the information. Hope you don't mind being
on camera."
I don't mind at all - I kept looking over like...
Hands down, my favorite part of the trip was all the hiking we did.
First the seven hour hike near Lake Louise and then the
scary climb we made at Moraine Lake the next day.
Here's how it went down.