{"id":3315,"date":"2016-12-31T15:09:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T23:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=3315"},"modified":"2019-08-06T10:47:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T18:47:14","slug":"banff-vacation-day-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=3315","title":{"rendered":"Banff Vacation Day 7: Danger and Discovery."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This shot is only possible with a tripod, otherwise, the extreme cold would shake the camera too much!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Up early again I headed to the nearby lakes to attempt frozen sunrise shots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not me, but this is a behind-the-scenes look.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Our goal on day seven was to head northwest into Glacier National Park<\/a>, but we never quite made it.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our drive to the first destination, Wapta Falls<\/a>, took us on increasingly more snowbound roads until we arrived at the trailhead only to find it blanketed with snow too high to walk through. <\/span>We reluctantly started to turn around. And got stuck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Without snowshoes, that trail would be difficult anyway, but we had other more immediate problems.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In a replay of our Iceland adventure, we scooped out the snow with our hands and feet and worked ourselves back onto the abandoned snow road.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We stopped on the road to take pictures of a decommissioned snowblower resting at the edge of the forest <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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