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Don't Waste Your Time in the Canadian Rockies

Banff Hiking Trails

Imagine the earth's topography is a physical manifestation of sound. Hills would be yawns. Bigger mountains would be yells. And the peaks in the Canadian Rockies would be screams, howls, shrieks, screeches and roars. That's why Banff hiking trails are so compelling.

Other ranges, blunt and cloaked in forest, are shy compared to this brazen northern breed. Here the mountains are extroverts who bare their full, rock-hard musculature for all to see. It's constantly visible from the Canadian Rockies highways. You'll certainly see it from Banff hiking trails.

The cliffs are sheer and soaring. The summits sharp and serrated. And there seems no end to their spiky multitude. From a high vantage on many Banff hiking trails, the horizon resembles a shark's mouth: row upon row of wicked incisors.

These peaks are the guardian of an immense Canadian wilderness. Solitude is possible on many Banff hiking trails. The heart of the range—an area larger than New Jersey—is protected by six contiguous national and provincial parks, where wolves, grizzly bears, elk, caribou, bighorn sheep, mountain goats and their alpine brethren out-number human residents.

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