I completely forgot!

I know it's super delayed, but i just remember one of the most amazing things that we did whilst on the moose tour. Although, technically not part of the itinerary, on our free day in Banff me and a few of the girls decided to go dog sledding. We called up Snowy Owl Dog Sledding who run out of Canmore (about 30mins down the highway from Banff) and booked ourselves in for a tour the next day.

We were picked up bright and early from the SameSun hostel. In the van with us was a beautiful Husky which only got all of us the more excited and worked up. It was quite a bumpy ride to the sledding site, but well worth it when we saw all the dogs lined up ready to go. They were all so excited and so were we. After a brief tutorial we were assigned to sleds and guides and a team of 8 dogs. Some big, some small, but all extremely beautiful and friendly. I started out IN the sled (as opposed to driving the sled) which was so cosy. The dogs all began barking and howling and were just pulling to start running. All these dogs are bred at Snowy Owl and they're raised to run. If a dog doesn't enjoy running or isn't up to the task, it is adopted out to a good home. They're fed twice a day, and groomed daily. With over 120 dogs at the kennels you can imagine how long this process takes.

So we were off and running. All up the tour takes about an hour, and the driver and the person in the sled swap half-way. It was so exhilarating, although from the video you can't really tell. It's a bit frightening when the dogs take off down hill. They're all so happy and excited, you can't help but smile. Of course, we help the dogs out a little by yelling encouragement and running alongside the sled on up hills so they don't have to pull dead weight. If you ever get the opportunity to go sledding, by all means DO IT!!!!

Our sled on the go.

Our Dogs, Sled and Cameron.

After our ride, we patted and thanked the dogs, then sat around a campfire drinking hot apple cider and eating delicious cookies. The guide on my sled, Cameron (i think his name was), came and chatted with us and fed some cookie to the birds who happily flew out of the trees into his hand to get it. Absolutely amazing.

The Bird Cameron was Feeding.

Group Shot by The Fire (L-R): Me, Linda, Nicola, Lauren, Rachel.

Given the chance, I would do it all again in a heartbeat.

The Van.