CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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163 km from Banff to Banff, about 2 h 24 of riding. It goes by way of Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks and back through Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 1 km this is Kootenay Rockies Loop, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Banff in the morning has a particular feel: cold air coming off the glacier-fed Bow River, mist clinging to Mount Rundle, and the smell of pine and woodsmoke from kitchens. The town sits in the heart of the Canadian Rockies at about 1,400 metres, hemmed in by peaks, and it exists because of hot springs. In the 1880s railway workers found warm water at Cave and Basin, and the government made the area a reserve that grew into Canada's first national park.
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Banff is where the day begins. Next is Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks.
On the south side of the Trans-Canada Highway rise Mount Stephen and Mount Burgess, and a few kilometres on, the road climbs towards Kicking Horse Pass, at about 1,627 metres the boundary between Alberta and British Columbia, and the line of the continental divide. The name came from an incident in 1858, when the explorer James Hector was kicked by his horse and left for dead.
Read the complete Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks write-up.
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Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks comes up 47 km in. Next is Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks.
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Read the complete Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks write-up.
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93 km in you reach Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks. Next is back through Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks.
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Read the complete Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks write-up.
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back through Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks, late in the day. Next is Banff.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Banff write-up.
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Back at Banff. That is the ride.
Banff → Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks is 93 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks → Banff is 93 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.