Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour 2009-2010

It may of been God's country a 100 years ago but I can tell it isn't any more. Within 2 minutes of entering city limits, usually on Deerfoot Trail, I'll of gotten the finger twice for driving too slow. Then as I drive around for the day it just continues. Is the rule to double the posted speed limit or what? Here in what's left of God's country you can often sit through a green light and the people behind don't even honk. And they call the west coast laid back. They have no idea.
 
Banff is freaking awesome, although the last time I was there I wound up with a real sore neck.

I just did a little contract climbing in Banff (actually at the Springs) a few weeks back and then picked up a few days work in Calgary. I forgot how beautiful it is, but I noticed this strange white stuff in the shade everywhere, and the trees were lacking in the leaf department. It was like going back in flora time. I also noticed that people in traffic can be fairly obnoxious, but at least they stop for pedestrians. You would think the whole Okanagan was populated with heartless sadists the way they fly past pedestrians out here.

Calgary was good to me, it will always be my hometown, but it didn't take long to remember why I got the heck out, after spending a solid 3 hrs a day out of 2 10 hr workdays on the road...blech. My commute to work here is 5 minutes. The traffic jams are hilarious compared to a city of a million plus, people here freak out if they're 5 cars back at a stop sign.

I'm with Boreality on that one.
 
I wouldn't say Calgary was bad to me. I just drive too slow.
Spent a few years in Banff as well. I haven't seen the world but I've seen every highway and road from Sask. to the B.C. coast and north beyond the road's end.
I'm now north of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan at Christopher Lake. All native trees, all removals. I thought I'd advance the frontiers of quality arboriculture but it's like building a five star resort for one star people.
 
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