Leaving Banff

[HugeJohn51]

Hey thunderfoot. That last place where you do your commentary is Canmore. My home town. That's 'three sisters' on your right and 'Grotto' on your left. You actually pan past my house! Glad you liked it here and there is tons of fantastic climbing and ski touring all over.

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[ThomasXp]

I live so close to there, Vancouver island! :D

[JagermeisterDetox]

hehe, thunderf00t drives a heavily laden, almost overloaded, 1995 mazda protiege. I think theres a reason everyone overtakes him.

[logicaxe]

Thats some trippy music you have playing. I felt like I need to take some acid and cut my wrists to enjoy this video.

[KittenLover105]

I <3 banff

[Virility]

Western Canada rocks.

[majorvoltage]

From about 5:59 to 6:06 you were passing drumlins on the left side of the road. These are elongated hills made of glacial till formed on the morley flats by a glacier coming out of the mountains during the last glacial maximum.

[Anghellik9]

Banff is absolutely breathtaking. My car got stopped by mountain goats on one of the roadways

[Ashybasha]

If I recall correctly, the fine sediment that makes the water blue is known as "Rock Flower".

[achtungcircus]

"Rock FLOUR"

because the rock is so finely pulverized that is stays in easy suspension in the water, refracting the blue end of the spectrum.

[haringfan2]

Thanks for sharing this. I'm really enjoying following your trip.

[at0mnonymous]

I LOVE BC! My native province and the best place on earth in my opinion.

Thanks for the GREAT vid!

[Masstransit09]

TF- Lots of them actually are climbable including "The Three Sisters" at 5:32

Next time you're through, look up "Scrambling the Canadian Rockies"

[GeologyofOhio]

Absolutely fantastic! I had always planned a trip up that way, and now there's even more reason to do so.

Thank you for your contribution!

[duffeknol]

I'm faving all these vids so that I don't forget where to go when I visit BC in a few years. Absolutely splendid views, I can't wait to go!

[Yubel0]

Wow, this reminds me of my trip to Banff. I remember when the mountains (dis)appeared, it was really a very fast change.

[Shavarnarak]

It's always fun to go explore a continent... I did that with about half of Australia... Should go see the other half sometimes perhaps.

Been to Rockies before too, far as North America goes though. Lovely scenery there... Guess I've been to lots of places, so I can appreciate the sense of exploration!

[meloveanna]

Canada!

[Morkindie]

Thunderf00t,

Why do you drive so slow? everyone is passing you.

[eals524]

He said in another vid that he does so both to preserve the car (he's had some breakdown issues previously I think) and because of the equipment he has in it like the telescope, so he drives gently to avoid damaging anything.

[Nimatzo]

Plus I think the scenery is worth the slow drive ;)

[Gilarax]

You should go to Big Rock, right outside of Okotoks, AB (south of Calgary). Its the worlds largest glacial erratic, and it came from about 100km north of the icefields parkway, from Mt. Edith Cavell!

[imemminger]

damn you are one slow mofo

[moraza]

Fantastic stuff. I visited the ice fields pathway 2 years ago, and did a very similar journey, going into Drumheller and the Royal Tyrell Museum which had been an ambition of mine since I was about 4 or 5 years old. Absolutely fantastic place. Thoroughly envious of you doing it now! Keep it up, I look forward to seeing where you head off to next, and thanks for showing others this amazing scenic area :)

[IdleGod]

There is a "creation science" museum about an hour north of Drumheller. I did a day trip to the two of them. When I was at the creationist propaganda mill, they said "go to drumheller to see the exhibits. Come here to see the truth". It was pretty funny. It was all just AIG stuff.

[moraza]

Ahh, no way! If I'd had known I'd had convinced my parents to drive over there for the lulz. I've always had a somewhat masochistic interest in creation "museums" and how they're run, and whether it really is just AIG regurgitated without thought :P

[IdleGod]

I have to give them credit. They had some nice (albeit small) dioramas of things, and life sized heads of dinosaurs mounted on the walls like hunting trophies. I suppose thats their version of the dino with a saddle...

I tried to talk with the guy who runs/owns/built it, but he wasn't there. The guy manning the desk, when confronted about their diorama about fossils taking millions of years, he just turned his head and pretended like he no longer heard me talking.

[stefanlittle]

As a native Albertan, we were raised with being told that the glacial runoff lakes were blue from diffraction, aided by glacial silt. However, I recall a limnology grad student at University of Alberta, during my graduate schooling there, that some of it is due to algae, at least in some lakes.

[WRAYDAY]

Wicked! Another Albertan!!! E-town or Cow town? Perhaps a small town?

Aren't the mountains in this country amazing??

[stefanlittle]

E-town

[5pecular]

stay warm tf looking forward to some more bitu

[ThetaOmega]

Who thinks the next video with archaeopteryx will get BitV votebotted?

Great video :)

[maul316]

Beauty in the universe, ugliness in the cameraman.

[Rhysz1]

damn! look at that sky near the of the video.....Beauty in the universe indeed!

Regards,

Rhysz

[imnothear]

umm... im moving

[semiliteratedgod]

you became really good at filming and editing these, TF!!

[a2STRAY]

wonder if the blue in the lake is due to the skattering of light in the clay particle medium like it is in the earths atmosphere?

[ReverendAtomSmasher]

Stunning.

[zoidberg444]

Nice. You should have set up a blog devoted to your road trip around the US! It would have been interesting! These time lapse vids are great.

Also is it me, or did you keep getting overtaken on a dual carriageway by trucks and HGV's? Shame dude! lol

[Finiras]

i wonder how many terabytes of video footage he has

[warthog212]

how fast are you moving in the time lapse car scenes? mach 1 ?

[engeljakob]

whats the song?

[stonehartfloydfan]

yes it is clay.. well silt really .. its called glacial milk and it is why the lake is that blue

[thecosmicpuzzle]

Oh yaa! I was just about to ask if you plan to go by Drumheller. The museum was my favorite wonder land as a child!

[ksting14]

TF, are you heading to Ontario on your trip? If you are you gotta check out the Niagara escarpment. I live in Kitchener and its about 30 minutes North east near Milton. Doesn't compare to the Rockies but it goes on forever and has some pretty great views.

[Stringprodigy]

Hey thunderf00t. A lot of those mountains ARE climbable. I've climbed several there. None of them are "falling apart" as you deduce. Cheers

[apeek7]

At the summit of Bow Pass on the Icefields Parkway is the path to the Peyto Lake overlook. This view is towards the north and the Mistaya Valley.

The blue color of the lake is caused by suspended glacial silt. These tiny, tiny particles are called glacial rock flour and they flow into the lake in the summer.

The particles range from 0.01 micron to 2 micron. This allows Rayleigh Scattering to produce the color by the same method that makes the sky a blue color.

[spartan2600]

My father skied Banff, apparently its one of the worlds best, if not THE best place to ski. I HAVE to go there!

[Stringprodigy]

No there are better. Lake Louise destroys Banff in the skiing and scenery departments.

[spartan2600]

Lake Louise is part of Banff - Banff National Park anyways.

[Stringprodigy]

Lake Louise is IN Banff National Park, but it's a separate place from the town of Banff. It's a 40 minute drive away. I worked in Lake Louise for years...

[vince19811981]

AND I am canadian!!!!!!!!!, seriously I am

[BDMblue]

TF you drive like an old man. Every car passed you. Drive the speed limit!!!

[lupine73]

If I was driving through scenery like that, I'd be going slower too. Beautiful.

[tobyw87]

His car is potentially losing radiator fluid! He doesn't want to push it too bad or he could potentially have serious problems!

[boogerbuttpoop]

I need to save some money and go on a long trip like this

[achtungcircus]

I hope that the coffee was Tim Horton's. Have you learned to say double-double yet?

[Dryndal]

GREAT to watch as allways! :)

[pianoman2317]

Where do you get this music? It's always perfect for the time lapses. Excellent vids!

[BirdValiant]

What speed are you usually going?

[GuppyPal]

1000mph!

[ThePsychoReturns]

The transition from the Rockies to the Great Plains is a beautiful one.

[Bardiel2c]

the royal Tyrell Museum is freaking awsome

[arcooke]

Everywhere you go, people drive 5000mph.  What is this madness?!

:)

[justhebegining]

breath-taking

[randylayhi]

cool you went through my hometown near the end of the vid.

[cidvisions]

Can't you just imagine Thunderf00t driving an RV around with his wife and kids?

[midare]

LOL Not really, but i can imagine him living out of an RV that's been decked out with his plane workshop, camera lab and various telescope mounts. I think screaming kids and bitchy wives would ruin trips like this.

[qqstar999]

that is if he had a wife.

[ThagrynSylrand]

I know it might not be as scenic as what you've been experiencing, but if you have the chance, stop by in saskatoon (that is if you're heading east) If not I understand

[kshackleton]

4:57...the Three Sisters

5:09 ...Grotto Mountain [I think]

Every one of those mountains has an established trail to the summit. Anyone in reasonably good condition can hike to the top in under 3 hours.

I have personally been to the peak of several of them near Banff/Canmore.

[kshackleton]

Cool...you were in my backyard.

[lunaehmaz]

I can't see "Tyrell" without thinking of the movie Bladerunner!

[t3nGu666]

2:20 wow, that's beautiful!

[oexnorth]

Ha! Everybody drives faster than

Thunderf00t. Speed up, Grandma!

[AnimaRaptor]

lol I assume srinking from that lake would be a bad idea then?

[eksyte]

Sometimes the people in the timelapses look like Sims.

Cool stuff.

[jloiterer]

wow I think this is the first video where you actually PASSED someone on the road!

Love your videos Thunderf00t

[Urschleim]

A very nice video again. And this time i got really lucky because Thunderf00t used my all time favorite song in the intro.

[Brianswers]

Are you visiting Drumheller for the fossils?

[baraqiyal]

Get some fuzzy dice.

[3101010]

I drove that road every two weeks for years... Was always amaized at the view.

[Jimb0can]

I can't wait for the museum trip as well. I love the icefields and the mountains they are so beautiful.

[waksibra]

Are you a very slow driver or something? They all seem to be passing you.

[xkingcutx]

alberta drivers tend to drive 10-30 kph over the speed limit

[lampyman101]

He's been taking it easy on the car because he's driving so far and he doesn't want to end up running it into the ground before he gets home. The journey is quite epic if you watch it from the beginning

[kirakun]

I hope he had a chance to see the ten peaks.

[blisterinthesun]

Big ass ice fields! t-f00t, this has been my favorite time lapse BY FAR. Thank you for the beautiful view. <3

[Saukko31]

Oh boy, looking forward your museum vid!

[spikesmth]

LOL You rock Tf00t! I love the way you say "Big ass" around 3:00 lol ftw.

[Sarge084]

Beg pardon, it's 'Big arse' not big ass!

[eggsoup4]

Ahhh! yay Alberta! I'm happy to see you were visiting!

[FallenAngel0fDoom]

Yes, once you leave the Rocky Mountains towards Calgary, and all the way to Drumheller, is probably the most boring drive, ever! Glad to see you skipped posting the video of that. =P

[BravoBigscreen]

Great sense of pacing and optics. Absolutely breathtaking scenery, but the editing sensibilities add even more to viewing experience. Really really great job.

[0okamino]

"you must be stinking by now."

Actually, he does wash in nice clear lakes and such. We see an example of that near the end of the Crater Lake (Part 1) video. He also visited FactVsReligion's home and got cleaned up and patched up there.

Try actually watching instead of just looking to find something shitty to comment.

[holdontoyourwig]

Get a sense of humour.......dick.

[painterQjensen]

I kjeep wondering what music you listen to while driving, when i see these videos

[SparkyLen]

Just curious - are you planning to drive all the way to the East Coast...?

[NapalmXD]

LOL EVERY car is passing you up. You must have been going really slow :p

Even trucks are passing you xD

[Sarge084]

Big arse ice fields, good to see that the Englishness hasn't been corrupted by your exile in a foreign land.

[AbdultheImpailler]

I love your driving videos, they give people a good idea just how vast Canada really is, the sad thing is that most Canadians themselves don't realize just how big our country really is until they do a cross-country drive like you.

If you drive long days, 14-16 hours you can make it from Vancouver to Toronto in 3 days but you have to start early and stop late but if you're in a hurry otherwise take you time, enjoy and do it in 6 or 7 days

thanks Thunder, waiting for the Tyrell vid!

[AcanLord]

Wait a minute...

 Your going to drumheller? i was going to drumheller! I was thinking about going in about a week or so.

[vegasOasis]

When semi trucks are constantly passing you, you're going too slow! ;)

[fluffymcdeath]

Phh. Have you driven the mountains? You should see how the logging trucks drive. If they are NOT passing you then you are trying to die!!

[DizzyCtube]

Ah yes, I've done this drive many times. Good old Banff!

[MasterOhSo]

I liv not too far from were you are...relatively that is. Edmonton mate...it's all good.

[patrickallain]

Yeah same here.

I didnt know Tf00t was going to come all the way up here.

[MasterOhSo]

Totally...he is making a wounderous journey isn't he? I have to admit to a little envy in that department, life hasn't afforded me the opportunity..atleast not just yet. Cool to see someone else form Edmonton on here...thought I was the one and only...peace be with good brother.

[debbieomi]

I've never seen water that shade of blue...absolutely beautiful!

[SucculentJuniper]

I just noticed that everyone passed you on the highway lol

[dunndudebemelol]

HD norm comes available later

[anonymolol]

would love an HD version of this :(

canada is so beautiful

[saxmanchiro]

I got to remember my 'hurl' bag for the next vid. What a freakin mess on my keyboard!

Nice TF. How were the fuel prices in BC and Alberta? Big difference?

[EmilyTheGreat80]

Oh, the Archaeopterx (sp?) I can't wait for the next video!!!!

Science is sexy.

[realityseeker1984]

Can't wait to see the next vid at the Tyrell!

[Sooung]

I think it's too bad T. F00ts accounts were created after YouTube imposed the 10 minute limit on videos

[DeltaNC]

D'oh! I'll have to wait for YouTube the quality to improve. I'm getting blocks right now!

[deconverts]

I'm loving these videos, Thunderf00t. Very inspiring and I hope you'll take the time to upload your Google Map KMZ at some point so those of us so inclined can recreate the great "Voyage de Thunderf00t!".

[larryadmin]

He drives fast, surprised he's not been arrested

[Benjamin6420]

omg i'm first :) great vid