The The trail then swings around and follows more or less up the south ridge
of the mountain. From here you will see the backside, which included the
banff golf course, you get a great view from here of the 'Y'
where the bow river splits to make a fairly large island. Oh, and the
backside is a pretty impressive
cliff, considering Tunnel mountain is not that high. We were able to
spot a large Elk crossing the Bow river down below
(maybe even a Moose, the distance made it hard to tell.)
In the picture to the left
can see part of the view from the backside of tunnel mountain, Off in the
distance you see the Fairholme Range, down below you see the bow river,
and a small piece the Banff golf course. To the
side is mount Rundel
Finally you come over the top, from here you again have a view of the
town site of Banff, and in addition you have a view to the north. In the
Picture you see one of the hikers I was with (Ben), below you see the
northern section of the town of Banff.
In the last picture you get to see a picture of the 'mountain' that is the
topic of this hike. The picture is taken from the trial around the
cave an basin national historic site. I saved this picture for last,
so you would actually still be interested in the rest of the hike.
in all fairness, although I listed this hike as easy, it is fairly
steep in places, it is the shortness of the hike that places it in the
easy category for me. It would be a pretty long haul for a little tyke.
Lessons Learned on this trip.
Not much to exciting happened on this hike. It did threaten with
some crummy weather, we heard thunder from up the valley. But other
than a light sprinkle no real dangerous weather developed. It is a
good reminder that the weather can turn very fast in the mountains, it
for us to don our wind breakers, and stay alert for the dangerous stuff
that could have easily been on our way.
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