This weekend we made a quick stop by Grotto Canyon, a spot near Canmore where you get to hike along a small river at the bottom of a gorge. The canyon is said to have many native pictographs, though we still haven't seen any of them.
This was the second time we hiked through Grotto Canyon -- a short couple of hours round trip with virtually no elevation gain. For the second time I completely failed to bring the camera. So still no pictures.
When you walk through the canyon in summer, you have to cross the river a couple of times, hopping from rock to rock. It's a lot of fun. When you walk through in winter, the river is frozen (almost completely) solid. Now that we did not expect! So you walk up to the end of the canyon (where we find multiple ice falls which climbers go up on!) walking, for the most part, directly on the river's ice. Quite the interesting experience. But do remember to pack your Yaktrax otherwise you'll just hurt yourself slipping all over the place!
So now Grotto Canyon has gone up on our list of things to hike around here: it's an easy hike that looks really nice in summer and that offers a unique experience in winter!
