Alberta Tourism

ride through jasper Alberta at 1:46 Shelby says Dammaaaahh (her word for grandma) in a really weird and funny voice.

I went skiing in Jasper, Alberta, Canada for Christmas ‘09 and the powder and skiing was excellent, especially with the extra long runs with the new Canadian Rockies express quad chair cutting down lift times!

The Wildhorse Saloon is Back for another Calgary Stampede! Downtown Calgary’s ONLY Stampede Party Tent is ready go with 10 days and nights of non stop excitement! World class entertainment & service make this the only place to be for Stampede 2010!! Yee haw!!!

TV Host and Travel Writer Robin Esrock takes his brothers and Dad to the breathtaking Alberta Rockies to investigate the growing trend of Mancations

A video of Forum Lake in Akamina-Kishenena in British Columbia. Although not technically in the Alberta portion of the Rocky Mountains, Forum Lake in most accessible from Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta. There is also an increasing possibility of this pristine mountain region becoming a National Park. This lake drains into the Flat Head River which is threatened by mining in the area. UNESCO is looking into the possible threats of mining in this area and how they would effect the nearby Waterton National Park, Glacier National Park, as well as the Flathead Valley itself.

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Camped in Jasper when a storm rolled in

Rockies & Alberta

To the best of my knowledge, this is Mt. Andromeda which is also the second highest peak in the Canadian Rockies. If I am incorrect, please let me know.

At first Calgary officials said the ‘Stampede’ was cultural and historic - same argument used by ‘Seal Hunters’ in Eastern Canada. Now on TV the Stampede official was saying that the Stampede attracts 330000 + spectators, almost making the connection that the horses are collateral damage, the price of doing business. Cockfighting is cultural and historic to many people and nations around the world, it also has a large audience, there are countries where the same can be said for dog fighting (cultural, historic and entertaining) sometimes dogs die. There is no difference today between cockfight, dogfighting or the Calgary Stampede because of another common denominator - money. Specifically making money and entertaining people at the expense of animals. Money drives the Calgary Stampede, it’s big business and part of the old mindset of ‘build it and they will come’ tourism mind set. In the world of big business driven by greed, everything becomes expendable it makes no difference between people or horses. A horse dies, get another one, lot’s of horses out there. NOT all rodeo’s and stampede’s are the same, in small town Canada and USA there are rodeo’s and Stampede’s that celebrate the contribution that the horse and cowboy’s made to the wild, wild west. Places where horses are still held in high esteem and respected. The small town rodeo’s and stampede’s are for the enjoyment of people and not the pursuit of money. Perhaps the big city attitude of chasing money and …