Rocky Mountain Ramblers Association

The fall season is a good time to do trips that are greatly enhanced by the fall colours but would not be high on someone’s to do list at oth more...

Fall colours where at their very best and quite spectacular on the drive out. The weather forecast was calling for a mix of sun and cloud with the more...

It is just past the equinox and the yellow colours in Alberta are perfect in at least a narrow band--the larches in the high subalpine, as reported more...

Day 1: It doesn't get much better than this in September. We left a car at Moose Meadows and drove to the Skoki parking lot to start the mundan more...

Having done this trip last fall i liked it so much i did it again this year. As we were getting ready a young couple left before us on a romantic m more...

After a bit of a frosty start, it was perfect last full day of summer for 17 Ramblers, 2 guests and Piper the retriever to take in the amazing larc more...

Using the Parks Canada shuttle service (which we found to be well organized and efficient) we arrived at Lake Louise at about 9am with a fall crisp more...

Under a mix of sun and cloud, and a balmy 11C, we headed up the trail at about 10 am arriving on the summit of Little Arethusa at noon. We settled more...

As we left the parking lot the hot sun was already melting the night frost and it didn't take too long to warm up and shed all the extra clothing. more...

We started from the parking area 7.0 km north of Bow Summit at 9:30 am on this absolutely beautiful fall day. Based on Kane's description and S more...

This hike has always been one of my favourites.
When we arrived at the trailhead the temperature was 2deg.C.
That made it a comfortab more...

A perfect day for a late summer hike! An uneventful walk in cool morning shade up portions of Mist Creek and Mist Ridge trails took us to treelin more...

An enjoyable day in Banff for cycling with mixed sun & cloud; a coolish start but warming to a nice cycling temperature. The road was damp at t more...

While you first have to wrap your mind around a hike where the destination involves a significant elevation loss vs. a summit, Burns Lake is a beau more...

No smoke, no hot weather, no rain, no wind. In other words,a perfect day for hiking. To make things even better, there was a bike race taking place more...

Upon arrival at a rather busy parking lot our hike began, the warmth of the sun being held back from the valley gave us a cooler first hour or so. more...

A really fine day in the Gorge Creek area as somewhat threatening afternoon clouds did not release any rain on us, although some was seen in the mo more...

Starting at the civilized hour of 10 am in cool conditions we made good time to the lake where we had our first break. To gain the ridge above us f more...

4 hikers left parking lot at 9 am on relaxed pace only 1 degree C . Met many others on same hike plus one group going onto Fist; chatted with many more...

I became intrigued by this trip a few years ago after Christine had such high praise for it, and indeed it did not disappoint! The parts throug more...

Paget Peak, giving it's name to Paget limestone which can be viewed in the area. The sedimentary strada, laid down generally in a horizontal or clo more...

This is a hike easy scramble that never disappoints.Twelve of us left a not too busy parking lot at 9:15 in a clear and cool morning We made good p more...

As a comparison to the success of movie sequels this past year, this trip was actually a sequel to Jack's first Rambler ascent of Howard Dougla more...

Mount Andromache was named by the Alpine Club of Canada for Andromache, who in Greek mythology was the wife of Hector. But Mount Hector to the sout more...

We started our ascent of Mount Howard Douglas from the Sunshine ski resort parking lot at 8:30 am. The first three kilometres is on the road up to more...

"Diversion", the act or an instance of diverting or straying from a course, activity as in they diverted from the planned trail. As we re more...

Apart from a slightly smoky sky, this turned out to be a good day for this longer loop hike. Temperature maxed out about +18c, negligible wind and more...

AS first light broke over the city of Calgary, smoke and fog seemed to be present. Objective was clear, drive about 2 hours to trailhead confirmed more...

I don't think it would be fair to characterise us as "mad dogs" but as my grandfather was an Englishman, perhaps we had some justification for bein more...

We started our hike under blue skies shortly after 8:00 am. We were delayed for a few minutes by the road construction on highway 6. After 34℃ on t more...

We started from the parking lot with somewhat smokey skies but bouyant spirits. After making our way along the flats by the river the coordinator f more...

It was another beautiful day in the mountains of Castle Provincial Park. The trailhead of this hike starts at Syncline Barnaby Staging Area. It has more...

Having done this peak in 2018, and remembering fun scrambling and great views but less fun bushwacking, I was excited that a few Ramblers signed up more...

We had the parking lot to ourselves and started off at 9:00 AM under cloudy skies. By the time we escaped the trees the clouds had disappeared and more...

It was a perfect day to hike Loaf Mt. We arrived at the Bovin Lake trailhead shortly after 8:00 am. We started walking on the road about 8:25 am. I more...

A perfect day for this great hike. Great especially because it looks so impressive from the Trans Canada. The temperature was just right, skies cle more...

Participants: David,Jeannette,Nardi,David,Clifton,Barbara,Deborah,Cheryl,Laura,Jozef.

Due to the significant amount of misunderstanding about the Restricted Area
related to this hike I contacted Banff Park on Jul 20, 2023 and more...

We were surprised to find the parking lot at Hector Creek full when the eleven of us arrived just before 9:00 am. Most of them must have just been more...

Participants: Rosanne,Philip,Kim,Arnold,Yolande,Nancy,Leslie,Kathy,Clifton,Joanne,Barbara,{ more...

After a seemingly never-ending drive from Sibbald Flats, we started up the trail at 10:30 AM under sunny skies. As we were having lunch, smoke star more...

Sunny skies to start led to early delayering and the usual muddy spots were almost all dry so the going was easy. As we got nearer to the treeline more...

We had a nice social hike, made even better by spending some time with Ron's group who were hiking opposite to our route. 14 km and 700m; back more...

A cloudy day but no precipitation during the hike so it was a good get-out-and-hike excursion. The ascent to Three Trail Pass was fairly quickly co more...

What a beautiful day to do this classic ridgewalk.Warm in the lowlands but a nice cool breeeze once higher up. And bonus ! not too many people arou more...