Bow River

Snowmaking, although it uses quite a bit of water, in the natural world, it's a fraction of what you would see on our typical snowmaking seasons.

It would represent minutes of the flow of the Bow Valley, of the Bow River.

So we're fairly lucky in that Canada has lots of water, and we have good access to it.

Some of the Western resorts in Utah, Colorado, California, the water is a huge deal, and every drop is monitored.

Okay.

At the south end there, we're running along the Bow River.

So

there's really good water on the Bow, but the trouble with the Bow is it's up and down, you know, seasonally, depending on how much water they're letting out of the dam.

And so Rob, what's your Cochran story?

I've lived in Calgary, Banff and Cochrane, the Bow Valley Corridor from my entire life, most of my life.

I did a short stint in Toronto and Montreal when I was really little.

So even though I'm not a Federalist, I'm still happy that I've lived across Canada.

But I'm definitely an Alberta boy and a Bow Valley boy.

And kind of like what Lisa said, Cochrane is kind of the best of all worlds.

It's close to Canmore and Banff, but it's way more affordable, of course, but also close to Calgary, which has everything.

gates to Banff National Park.

I was in Edmonton, moved to Calgary one year ago for my job.

And so far, I'm loving it because the city is like Bow River runs through it.

And we can see the mountains from here, Banff and Canmore.

the sneak peek of the high mountains when we have like nice, clear, sunny day, no cloud.

I'm talking about both the Banff Pedestrian Bridge and the Nancy Paw Bridge.

I mentioned these in my recent episode about walks around Banff because I think they are worth incorporating into a walk along the Bow River.

But stop when you're on the bridges.

Don't just walk across them.

The views along the Bow River in both directions, actually in all directions, are beautiful.

You've got the river below you, mountains surrounding the entire town.

Again, so simple.

You're just walking around Banff.

They were deliberately positioned to help travelers experience dramatic Canadian scenery.

And the Banff Springs Hotel, its terraces and outdoor spaces, they were designed to take advantage of views of the Bow River, mountains, and surrounding landscape.

So the porch has gone from protect the house to...

Connect the house to the neighborhood to connect the traveler to the country.

Find fall your way at Ross.

If you follow the Bow River, east of Calgary, for about 40 kilometers, you'll come to a break in the prairie landscape, lush with rolling hills.

That's where you'll find Wyndham Cars Land Provincial Park, a popular destination for hiking and camping in the summer.

On April 27, 2002, a fisherman headed to the bank of the river near the park to see what he could catch.

The body had been discovered on a Saturday, and the autopsy would take place two days later on the following Monday.

In the meantime, officers scoured the area about an hour southeast of Calgary.

The Bow River meanders through the prairies in a generally eastward direction from Calgary to where the body was found.

Police had already searched not far from there based on a tip from a semi-truck driver.

And we've seen things in

Canada, or in Calgary specifically, of people... having a giant net crossing the entirety of the Bow River to basically catch everything that goes down.

Yeah, exactly.

The video I saw that you're referring to is a CEO, so a conservation officer, approaching the river, and as he does, they're holding the net across the entire river, and obviously there's huge restrictions.

You know, what does that, you know, recovery look like? Are we looking at the historic range or? Oh,

there were bears, you know, in The River Valley in downtown Edmonton, along the Bow River in Calgary, there were bears in the late 1800s, grizzly bears that were using those habitats as well.

The bears that are being seen further east in southern Alberta, what we really need to do is get some radio callers on those bears to understand where they're living, where they're denning, what their habitat use is, and understand that.

I mean...