we're on our way to the cave and basin
and it's only 150 meter walk so this is
perfect for us we only need to walk like
five minutes because we are really tired
from hiking the last couple of days and
this morning we woke up for sunrise
again so yeah this is our last day and
we're ready for like a nice relaxing you
know sightseeing place for our last stop
before we head back into Calgary
it's a little stinky right here it's a
little stinky but I don't mind I mean
it's just like boiled eggs kind of and
you get used to it so but if you really
really hate that smell maybe this is not
the place for me yeah it's from this
altar
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that's the case they said there's like
one here and then there's another one
that we go through inside the original
that one's better yeah
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welcome welcome
Oh No Oh in the hot did you did you feel
it the warm I I smelled it and then like
this roof of like warm air just came up
and it felt kind of gross but I I liked
this drawing right here this man the hot
spring sexy man I know his name is
rather that's better
okay so one has a mustache and one
doesn't and a frontier of plumbing is
unknown hot water can be liquid pools
this scent of sulfur could be turned
into the smell of money that the three
men could gain legal rights to the
springs three hot men games in this ring
because this land did fix existing
categories okay now know why my accent
is changing disputes over right to the
hot springs brought the federal
government into the fray of course when
money's involved okay so this cave and
it's hot spring still lie below this
hole access is from the south Belvedere
inside so we're up here right now and
we're looking down but we can't see the
water so we have to go through the
businessing to actually see it that we
wants you to have
baby there's no hot man I this looks so
gross thermal springs extremely fragile
homes an endangered species of snail do
not disturb do not swim hmm although the
water does look very inviting
I would think anyone who would look at
it would be like yeah that's so great
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it doesn't say like a lot of hot springs
use for skin ointment speak my skin
really did feel great after Chicka
Springs no ordinary water just as hot
water filter through ground coffee beans
become copy this stream has filtered
through locks deep in the earth become
warm in her eyes and slightly
radioactive hot springs water so it's
like these maybe I does that mean it's
not hot springs for human okay does that
mean that hot man over there that is the
radio a cure so so some level of
reactivity is natural in our environment
so that means that man over there hot
man's okay he's he's gonna be fine
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West Fonda did see the hot man we're
talking about
so he's convinced reaction you're
looking at studying it what about his
brother
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imagine the men back there looking right
without the monster he's the only one
less - but three prospectors who tried
to stake claim on these hot springs what
is them a hot man
I'm hot man the picture looks so
different Oh actually he's pretty
chiseled oh he looks short he looks very
sure but his hands look like he's 80
years old
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so this is the birthplace yes Canada's
national parks yeah that's pretty cool
yeah that this is the birthplace I'm
glad we came here
yeah we learned something new learn lots
of new things here I made a discovery
trial you could take but we're not gonna
do that
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so we were just at the top of the cave
where we were looking down into the cave
and the pool of hot spring water so now
we're gonna go inside through the
building to look at the actual cave
entrance right here
so I don't have to pay to go see this
cave we thought it was today
I thought it was free it's it free but I
guess it's free on the outside but not
the inside car
candies handling the money first so this
is just see the cave in there all right
yeah so it's not totally free you have
to pay like 350 bright mission right
David did you close before well we have
way back to the bathroom hour before you
read so really it is cave inches
this Indian is freaking me out this
picture so yeah this is the space yeah
it's like really bothering me
hey why do that to this poor Indian man
my pain is like what says he's good
enough so but this painting was created
by artist Roland Roman Roman Roman Roman
mud Wow so this shows you how the key
point where the spring waters reached to
surface carbon dioxide and hydrogen
sulfide are released into the atmosphere
the release carbon dioxide allows
minerals precipitate in a warm mounds of
porous rock called
too much this in turn form sulfuric acid
which he rolled he birds the two fauna
the result is a cave within the tooth
amount
that was an that's been a difficult it
was very difficult as this the caves
were out right now are that little
entrance grin
Alesso for a mountain that's the metal
we were on top of gondola it's all time
together
who are these who are these people
early visitors to the cave in 1908
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so here we go into the hey look it's
dark
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here it is the magical cave government
that's what we were looking up from up
there
and then those guys through
and there are painting what is this
hidden shine
do you guys think that's pretty cool I
liked it I liked it yeah it's very
unprofessional and the end result was
like a nice surprise yeah I liked all
the pictures they should yeah and then
I'm like oh I can imagine them like
climbing down that road yeah I thought
it was they're gonna be nice to like
come back I did I didn't wanna check out
icefields pkway but just enough time no
matter how many times look up on a clear
dark starry night I can't help but feel
overall by the law and that the
very nicely but Bryan Bray
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you can see the bubbles from the hot
spring
you can see the sandwich
oh it is known as they stand right down
there with it Wow I wonder how hot this
water is
just this warm mineral-rich springfed
water okay so people used to bathe in it
oh that must have been fun back then it
was a Swiss style bathhouse
it wasn't Wow until 1955 Wow
since here for a while so it turned into
a pool mmm due to high bacterial counts
the bathroom surveys and pools were
closed to the bathers and then they
rebuilt it to the way it was in 1887 and
1985 nice ending to our family I liked
it it was uh it's interesting to see
like how they discovered it and then how
it got into the hands of Banff National
Park actually that's the last part where
they the natural springs how it was a
pool in the 1950s was kind of
interesting to me but then they reverted
it back to the original hot springs and
you can't use it today but I want to
know the people who swam in that back in
the nineteen fifties if any of those
people are alive today it kind of
interesting to hear their stories that's
what was I just mean so what did you
like about their little tour active hot
springs that nobody can actually he's
great you can't even touch it
why are you I think is we're reading
stuff and we're not really like so I
guess there is a section where he could
touch the water we just it well yeah no
I thought it was like way more
informational at than I thought it was
gonna be I thought you know we would
just be here for 30 minutes and then
leave but it was actually we stayed for
about a full hour
it's really interesting so yeah I highly
recommend it if you if you run Banff and
you're looking for stuff to do
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you