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DAY 1 (Arrive Calgary & transfer to Banff at your leisure)

Check in at our conveniently located Banff Hotel.

Day 2 - Banff - Jasper - Cariboo Lodge

Our journey today takes along one of the most spectacular highways in North America, the spectacular Icefield parkway, past Crowfoot Glacier, Bow Lake and the mammoth Columbia Icefield, with the citadel-like peaks of the Canadian Rockies looming above, graced eith glacial lakes, tumbling glaciers and spectacular waterfalls. We travel through Jasper and Mount Robson Provincial Park to arrive at our heli pad at for a quick exhilerating flight to Cariboo Lodge. Upon arrival we are greeted by the lodge manager, outfitted with boots, day packs, rain gear, etc., and settle into our rooms.

After a helicopter safety talk, we climb in and soar up for an afternoon of getting acquainted with the High Country. In the late afternoon, our chopper picks us up and it's back to the lodge where delicious hors d'oeuvres are served in the lounge. Our casual gourmet dinner, served family style, will be at 7:00 (save room for the pastry chef's latest inspiration). Then some camaraderie by the fire, maybe a sauna or whirlpool, and a great night's sleep. (CB,L,D)

Days 3 & 4 - Heli-Hiking

You might want to join the optional morning stretch, or sleep a little later. A hardy buffet breakfast is served before our full day of heli-hiking begins! The first helicopter leaves with a flight into the Cariboos that takes us to a range of personality-rich glaciers, emerald lakes, airy mountain ridges and soft fields of wildflowers. We'll have a picnic lunch at a particularly winsome spot or on special days enjoy a barbecue lunch surrounded by spectacular utterly unspoiled high country landscapes.

Now, we hope this web page makes it clear not only that the landscapes in which we spend our days are knock-down, world-class gorgeous and varied, but that there is probably no other place on earth where you can experience such wildness and solitude without lugging a 40-pound backpack.

So, message delivered! Great hiking, picnicking, a little learning about glacial landscapes and their hardy life-forms, and lots of fun accomplished, we fly back at day's end to the lodge for (depending on our mood) maybe a massage, a browse in the lodge shop, a game of chess, a go at the lodge climbing wall, a cocktail on the deck as alpen-glow bathes the peaks we've been communing with, dinner, storytelling in the living room, and another great night's sleep. (B.L.D)

Day 5 - Banff or Calgary Airport

After breakfast we board a delux motor coach and retrace the journey along the Icefield parkway. You will have the chloice of being dropped off in Banff or the Calgary Airport (B.L)

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