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 | May 15, 2017 | People
Thanks for visiting our website and finding your way to Ben’s Blog. I’m your host, owner and operator of Mountain Madness Tours. We’re a pretty small operation, for the most part just myself and a couple of part time helpers which makes us super...
by Ben | May 14, 2017 | People, Places
Sunwapta Falls Rocky Mountain Lodge By Matt Corlett, as told to Tammie Burak Sometime in the mid-1940’s, William (Bill) Hayhurst, a Jasper high school principal opened Sunwapta Tea House on lease land. He built some cabins. There was no power, no water. Bill was a bit...
by Ben | May 14, 2017 | Ben's Tech Tips, General info, People
You don’t have to be a super-fit athlete to ride the Icefields Parkway. It helps to be in reasonably good physical shape, but if cycling the Parkway is something you really want to do, a can-do attitude can go a long way toward accomplishing your goal. Mountain...
by Ben | May 14, 2017 | People, Places
Arthur Coleman Discovers the Icefields Parkway Route, 1884 In 1884, Arthur Coleman, a geology professor at the University of Toronto, arrived in the Rockies on a quest to find a mysterious mountain he’d read about in an 1827 entry of the journal of David Douglas, a...
by Ben | May 14, 2017 | People, Places
The Palliser Expedition, 1857-60 John Palliser was born in Ireland in 1817 to a wealthy family. He loved hunting and exploring and caught the passion for frontier life when on a hunting expedition in Missouri in 1847-48. He later conceived a plan to lead an expedition...