Day 12 Golden to Field, BC Distance 89 km Temperature: hot Day 13 Field to Banff, Alberta Distance: 82 km Temperature-cooling down Day 14 Banff to Cochrane, Alberta Distance: 105 km Temp: cold this morning, hot later on Tough couple of days, hence the lack of blogging-lots of climbing over the past week, as we’ve been in the Rockies. Day 12 started with a tough 18 km climb, followed by a couple of descents, and then a continued climb up through Kicking Horse Pass. I love the names of some of these places-I can’t remember them now, but all conjure up images of violence, and animals (Kicking Horse Pass is named so because the first person (European) explorer was a doctor who discovered the area, but was kicked in the head by his horse, and went unconscious.) I guess he recovered, and hence the name. I thought maybe it was named so because climbing the pass made it feel like I’d been kicked in legs by a horse! We stopped along the way at Emerald Lake, and ‘Natural Bridge’ both amazing sit...
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