How to have fun in winter in Alberta | With A.V. Wakefield | Alberta, Canada
Are you up for some outside-the-city winter fun? Check out this video featuring A.V. Wakefield, founder of Hike 365 as she takes Scott Bakken and her adorable dog Metsa out for a day of adventure near Canmore. After a caffeine fix, they hit the trail for a winter hike to beautiful Grotto Canyon. ( Then they head to Canmore Nordic Centre ( site of the 1988 Winter Olympic Nordic events, and gear up for some cross country skiing in the Canadian Rockies. A cookout at Mount Lorette Ponds ( is the perfect end to a perfect day. There are plenty of places outside the cities to find winter fun in Alberta. You’ll find more enjoyable winter destinations below.
Banff ( – This mountain town has a hopping dining and nightclub scene and it’s located in an amazing national park with hiking and outdoor activities.
Lake Louise ( – This tiny hamlet has great restaurants and accommodations and it’s close to a ski hill and one of the prettiest lakes on the planet.
Jasper ( – This easygoing mountain town has excellent brewpubs, cafés and restaurants as well as winter festivals. It’s the perfect base for exploring Jasper National Park.
Pincher Creek ( Located near Castle Mountain Resort ( this quiet little town is a good base for a Canadian Rockies ski escape or a visit to a working guest ranch.
Waterton ( There are only a few shops and hotels open in Waterton in winter, but that’s part of its appeal. You get most of this Canadian Rockies national park all to yourself.
Elkwater ( ( Head off the beaten path to find a winter wonderland near Cypress Hills Provincial Park ( where you can enjoy cross country skiing, downhill skiing, skating, snowshoeing and more.
Sylvan Lake ( – Skating, ice fishing and outdoor winter festivals ( make this town a fun place to be in winter.
Ice Road Adventure ( –If you’re an intrepid adventurer, you’ll love driving the ice road from Fort McMurray ( to Fort Chipewyan, Alberta’s oldest settlement. You might even see some northern lights along the way.
Canadian Birkebeinier Ski Festival ( - Canada’s largest classic cross-country ski event attracts 2,000 cross-country skiers whipping around the loppet.
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Cross wind landing Fort McMurray (CYMM)
A beautiful January afternoon, X-wind landing in Fort McMurray, Alberta, CYMM, Rwy 25. Wind 270 / 14 gusting 20
There are 2 common ways of landing with a cross-wind.
1) Roll the wings into the wind (to the right in this case) AND apply opposite rudder (left) to align the nose of the aircraft with the runway. You should hold this position until touch-down. The upwind wheel will touch-down first, followed by the downwind wheel, and finally the nose gear. Remember to NEVER touch-down with the nose gear first. This is the method I prefer.
2) Crab: Point the nose of the aircraft sufficiently into the wind with rudder control until just before touch-down. Here, promptly align nose with runway centerline. NEVER touch-down in a crab as this will impose a severe side-load on the landing gear.
Yellowknife NWT Canada - Driving on frozen Great Slave Lake, Extreme cold HD
Driving from Yellowknife boat launch to Dettah via ice road. Temperature: -26c , 9:45am December 19, 2013.Extreme cold Watch in HD for better viewing. Enjoy!
------------- Great Slave Lake (French: Grand lac des Esclaves) is the second largest lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada (after Great Bear Lake), the deepest lake in North America at 614 metres (336 fathoms; 2,014 ft), and the tenth-largest lake in the world. It is 480 km (300 mi) long and 19 to 109 km (12 to 68 mi) wide. It covers an area of 27,200 km2 (10,502 sq mi) in the southern part of the territory. Its given volume ranges from 1,070 km3 (260 cu mi) to 1,580 km3 (380 cu mi) and up to 2,088 km3 (501 cu mi) making it the 10th or 12th largest.
The lake shares its name with the Slavey First Nations. Towns situated on the lake include: Yellowknife, Hay River, Behchoko, Fort Resolution, Lutselk'e, Hay River Reserve, Dettah and N'Dilo. The only community in the East Arm is Lutselk'e, a hamlet of about 350 people, largely Chipewyan Aboriginals of the Dene Nation and the now abandoned winter camp/Hudson's Bay Company post, Fort Reliance.
North American Aboriginal Peoples were the first settlers around the lake, building communities including Dettah, which still exists today. British fur trader Samuel Hearne explored the area in 1771 and crossed the frozen lake, which he initially named Lake Athapuscow (after an erroneous French speaker's pronunciation of Athabaska). In 1897-1898, the American frontiersman Charles Buffalo Jones traveled to the Arctic Circle, where his party wintered in a cabin that they had constructed near the Great Slave Lake. Jones's exploits of how he and his party shot and fended off a hungry wolf pack near Great Slave Lake was verified in 1907 by Ernest Thompson Seton and Edward Alexander Preble when they discovered the remains of the animals near the long abandoned cabin.
In the 1930s, gold was discovered there, which led to the establishment of Yellowknife, which would become the capital of the NWT. In 1967, an all-season highway was built around the lake, originally an extension of the Mackenzie Highway but now known as Yellowknife Highway or Highway 3. On January 24, 1978, a Soviet Radar Ocean Reconnaissance Satellite, named Kosmos 954, built with an on board nuclear reactor fell from orbit and disintegrated. Pieces of the nuclear core fell in the vicinity of Great Slave Lake. 90% of the nuclear debris was recovered by a joint Canadian Forces and United States military operation called Operation Morning Light. - Wikipedia
Dettah Yellowknives First Nation Territories
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#BurlON Bites - Canada's Largest Ribfest
Visit #BurlON for the largest Ribfest in Canada annually held on Labour Day weekend at beautiful Spencer Smith Park along picturesque Lake Ontario. Enjoy ribs, listen to great entertainment and enjoy the last long weekend of the summer in downtown Burlington Ontario.
Uranium City [2/2]
Uranium City ~1990
Google road trip Anzac,Alberta,Canada to Patricia,Alberta,Canada
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Great Pumpkin Festival
Smoky Lake, Alberta is located about one hour east of Edmonton, Alberta on Highway 28. This farming community is a great place to visit with friendly people and small town charm. Each year, in October, the Great White North Pumpkin Fair and Weigh-Off is held in this town. The largest pumpkins in all of Alberta can be found at this fair.