by Ben | Aug 16, 2017 | People
Day 3 I get up the next morning, It’s still early and breakfast won’t be for another hour, so I decide to stroll the grounds around The Crossing. The motel is set back on a hill, away from the highway and the expansive restaurant and gift shop. I love flowers and I’m...
by Ben | Aug 16, 2017 | People
Day 2 There’s snow on the ground the next morning. “Oh, no,” I think. “Not good for riding.” I mentally compare my mountain bike back home in the garage with the road bikes our group is riding on this tour. A mountain bike has big knobby tires that handle wet...
by Ben | Aug 16, 2017 | People
The Icefields Parkway: Road Bike Tour from Jasper to Banff By Tammie Burak I had the pleasure of joining Ben Johnson for a Mountain Madness road bike tour from the town of Jasper in Jasper National Park to Banff townsite in Banff National Park along the Icefields...
by Ben | Jul 12, 2017 | People, Places
The Crossing Resort: A Family-Run Hotel in the Canadian Rockies By Mike Fikowski, as told to Tammie Burak The Crossing Resort in Banff National Park at Saskatchewan River Crossing in Alberta, offers motel accommodations and restaurant food services to travelers along...
by Ben | Jul 10, 2017 | Places
Peaks of the Icefields Parkway – Part 2 “A new world was spread at our feet; to the westward stretched a vast icefield probably never before seen by the human eye, and surrounded by entirely unknown, unnamed, and unclimbed peaks.” J Norman Collie, 1898 It may be...