Alaska or Bust: Revisited: Calgary, AB to Cirrus Mountain, AB (6/19/2017)

Day 6
1964, the Plan: Calgary, AB to Valley View, AB.
1964, the Actuality: On Wednesday, July 22, the Explorer Scouts traveled from Calgary and apparently they stopped for the night on the Icefields Parkway near Cirrus Mountain. Kent reported via postcard that they spent the whole day in Banff. Some guys rode the ski lift, but he didn't. They were having lots of fun.

Monday, June 19, 2017
We departed from the Lac des Arcs Campground and continued on the Trans-Canada Highway/TC-1. We stopped at the first large pull-off along the lac/lake itself.

1964: Information panel about the
Mountain of Limestone (KSS)

2017: Now the information panel is about the Waterfowl Viewing Trail

1964: Looking across Lac des Arcs (KSS)

2017: Looking across Lac des Arcs

1964: The Explorer Scouts' bus at the pull-off (KSS)

2017: Our transport at the pull-off

1964: View west from the pull-off (Dr M)

2017: View west from the pull-off

We continued on the Trans-Canada Highway/TC-1 West, toward Banff.

Some snow left on the mountains

Hoodoos along the Bow River

Hoodoos are columns or pinnacles of weathered/eroded rock.

1964: Looking south on Banff Avenue at Caribou Street (Dr M)

2017: Looking south on Banff Avenue at Caribou Street

In 1979, Kent's parents took a trip in Canada from Toronto to the Canadian Rockies, ending up in Calgary. They visited Banff, and they stayed at the Mount Royal Hotel on their last night before going to Calgary to fly to Denver.

Mount Royal Hotel, currently undergoing renovation

Starbucks has arrived in Banff

Kent with an old-style painted burled spruce log structure

Visitor Centre in the former Banff School Auditorium (1939)
with the old-style sign support

Mistahiya (2000, by Stewart Steinhauer)
at the Whyte Museum

Banff Park Museum National Historic Site in a former railway depot (1903)

Bow Falls

Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel (1888,
designed by Bruce Price in "Swiss chalet style")

Kent with fractured rock that has trees growing on it

Bow River (Banff Avenue) Bridge (1920-1921)
with concrete reliefs of the unknown First Nations man

Buffalo Nations Luxton Museum in replica log fort (1953)

Cave and Basin National Historic Site building
(1914, designed by Walter F Painter),
was Canada's first national park, established in 1885

Cave and Basin has a thermal pool in a cave

and outside

Kent measures the thermal springs
temperature at about 95 degrees F

1964: View up Banff Avenue
towards Cascade Mountain (KSS)

2017: View up Banff Avenue towards Cascade Mountain

1964: Banff National Park Administration Building (Dr M)

2017: Banff National Park Administration Building (1935,
in Gothic Revival style); the grounds were closed to the public today
(this was taken through the fence)

1964: Shelter in Cascade Gardens (KSS)

2017: Shelter in Cascade Gardens (closed to the public today)

1964: Sulphur Mountain Gondola (KSS)

2017: Sulphur Mountain Gondola

1964: See the gondolas headed up the mountain? (Dr M)

2017: See the gondolas headed up the mountain?
(This photo includes the peak where they end)

1964: Looking down from the parking lot? (Dr M)

2017: Looking down from the parking lot
(we could not get the same angle as trees were in the way,
but still, where are the buildings?!)

1964: Mr Porter checks the water temperature
at Banff Upper Hot Springs (Dr M)

2017: Kent checks the water temperature
at Banff Upper Hot Springs

1964: The pool at Banff Upper Hot Springs (KSS)

2017: The pool at Banff Upper Hot Springs

1964: The pool at Banff Upper Hot Springs (Dr M)

2017: The pool at Banff Upper Hot Springs

We had lunch at the Banff Brewing Company,
with its heated balcony counter

Beer bottle collection at Banff Brewing Company

Continuing along the Trans-Canada Highway/TC-1.

Large animal overpass over the highway on the way to Lake Louise;
I believe small animals may use it as well!

Wow! A mother grizzly and two cubs were along the highway!
(fortunately on the other side of the fence!); we also saw a mule deer

Here is a video of the bears (sorry, Apple users do not seem able to see it):

1964: Iconic view of Lake Louise
backed by Victoria Glacier (KSS)

2017: Iconic view of Lake Louise
backed by Victoria Glacier (on a clearer day!)

Selfie attempt at Lake Louise (KSS)

1964: Directional sign at Lake Louise (Dr M)

2017: Directional sign at Lake Louise

We did find this directional sign
at the Cave & Basin National Historic Site

In 1979, Kent's parents were in Lake Louise, staying at the Chateau Lake Louise Hotel (now Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise) where they had a five-course dinner, and walked along the lake.

We also took the walk along the north side of the lake,
(Kent posing on a typical bench)

Looking back at the Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise Hotel

A Happy Wanderer - actually a memorial (1999) to
the first Swiss mountain guides brought to the area
in 1899 by the Canadian Pacific Railway

From Lake Louise we headed up the Icefields Parkway/AB-93.

1964: Viewpoint for Crowfoot Glacier (Dr M)

2017: Viewpoint for Crowfoot Glacier

1964: Crowfoot Glacier above Bow Lake(KSS)

2017: Crowfoot Glacier above Bow Lake

1964: Close-up of Crowfoot Glacier (Dr M)

2017: Close-up of Crowfoot Glacier

1964: View to the right of Crowfoot Glacier (Dr M)

2017: View to the right of Crowfoot Glacier

1964: Mountain view from Icefields Parkway (Dr M)

2017: Mountain view from Icefields Parkway (from a closer angle)

1964: Cirrus Mountain with the road below (Dr M)

2017: Cirrus Mountain with the road below

It seems the Explorer Scouts camped along the Icefields Parkway near Cirrus Mountain. As that is no longer allowed, we ended up camping at the Icefields Tent Campground.
In 1979, Kent's parents took a motorcoach tour along the Icefields Parkway, and also saw Crowfoot Glacier, as well as Bridal Veil Falls.