Tunnel Mountain ...

The Banff Springs Hotel golf course beneath Rundle Mountain (to the right of the picture)

Weekends just seem to fly by at the moment.  Between doing all the necessary things like study, exercise, socialise and fill in bureaucratic forms (the never-ending task in my life at the moment), there never seems time to get out of the city and into the mountains.  However, this weekend I was determined to get out and enjoy what could possibly be the last of the warm, sunny weekends.  On Saturday I did a lovely long walk around the river, culminating in a lovely long workout at the gym.  On Sunday (with a slightly fuzzy head after a dinner party on Saturday night), we decided to take an afternoon drive to Banff for a stroll in the mountain (and to visit the marvellous Banff tea shop).  I say stroll because I don't think you could possibly classify the walk up Tunnel Mountain as a hike.  It took us about one hour and thirty minutes to walk to the top, have a snack and a look around and return to the car.  Despite the short walk, it was lovely to enjoy some fresh mountain air before getting back to those bureaucratic forms.

A glimpse of the Banff Springs Hotel

(And, in case you are wondering, there is no tunnel on Tunnel Mountain.  The original CPR (Canadian Pacific Railway) planned to drive a tunnel through the mountain, but on second thoughts, it was decided that it was easier to go around the mountain.)

 

 

View over Banff townsite from the top of Tunnel Mountain