{"id":562,"date":"2009-07-07T14:09:50","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T22:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ehcanadatravel.com\/blog\/?p=562"},"modified":"2009-07-09T20:16:20","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T04:16:20","slug":"waterfalls-and-climbing-in-canmore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ehcanadatravel.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/07\/waterfalls-and-climbing-in-canmore\/","title":{"rendered":"Waterfalls and Climbing in Canmore"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canmore here I come!\u00a0 My legs were feeling great this morning after the big day of hiking and researching. I was raring to go again. Energizer bunny like.<\/p>\n

The day was pegged for researching closer to home base today. I wanted to check out Grassi Lakes, Quarry Lake, Policemans Creek, Cougar Creek and what ever else I ran into that looked interesting while in Canmore.<\/p>\n

Grassi Lakes was the first hike that was planned for the day. It is a 4 kilometre loop hike with some community and lake views leading to a waterfall, a couple of small ponds and some towering rock cliffs.<\/p>\n

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Grassi Lakes Hidden Climbing Wall<\/p><\/div>\n

The trail has an easy route and a hard route. The easy route follows a gravel like road.\u00a0 The hard route follows a single track trail with tree roots, mud, run off creeks and boulders. My kind of route!<\/p>\n

The waterfall was a towering slide created by reservoir lakes and dams. One can see it from the trailhead. Right near the waterfall are a cool set of rock work steps leading up the cliff wall.\u00a0 It was a nice touch.\u00a0 The bonus on this adventure did not unfold until I hit the cliffs.<\/p>\n

At the rock cliffs over looking the two small ponds are some massive rock walls. And to my surprise there were about 8 people climbing. No one mentioned climbing here. It is amazing to watch rock climbers. So, realizing my luck,\u00a0 I did take a spot on the nearby bench and watched for awhile.<\/p>\n

\"Two<\/a>

Two Great Minds<\/p><\/div>\n

Soon I had to move onto Quarry Lake and then I took a stroll down the main community walkway named Policeman’s Creek. It is a gravel and boardwalk path in town connecting neighborhoods. Many use it for biking, jogging and hiking. I got a kick out of the big bald head at the trailhead.<\/p>\n

The day ended in rain. It started to blow and a storm was moving in. All this quickly developing news as I was about to go hike the Cougar Creek Trail. Sitting in my jeep at the trailhead with rain pounding dents in my hood, I decided Cougar Creek will have to wait for our next visit to Canmore.<\/p>\n

Be well. Be active!!<\/p>\n

Cheers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Canmore here I come!\u00a0 My legs were feeling great this morning after the big day of hiking and researching. I was raring to go again. Energizer bunny like. The day was pegged for researching closer to home base today. I wanted to check out Grassi Lakes, Quarry Lake, Policemans Creek, Cougar Creek and what ever […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alberta-adventures"],"aioseo_notices":[],"geo":null,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ehcanadatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ehcanadatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ehcanadatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ehcanadatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ehcanadatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ehcanadatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"https:\/\/www.ehcanadatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ehcanadatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ehcanadatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ehcanadatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}