{"id":1890,"date":"2016-09-12T14:40:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T14:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/old.cherylhill.net\/blog\/?p=1890"},"modified":"2020-01-11T21:05:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T21:05:56","slug":"canadian-rockies-day-5-bow-valley-provincial-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/canadian-rockies-day-5-bow-valley-provincial-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Rockies Day 5: Bow Valley Provincial Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 31, 2016<\/p>\n<p>When we woke up this morning it was totally socked in. The forecast said &#8220;mainly cloudy with 60 percent chance of showers and risk of a thunderstorm.&#8221; High of 60. So we went back to sleep for a little while. When we got up we decided not to waste our time with any hikes that were supposed to have sweeping views. So we headed east a little ways to check out Bow Valley Provincial Park. We first did a short little loop along the Many Springs Trail. The trail goes around a wetland that is fed by underground springs. The water is relatively warm and attracts birds and animals year-round as a result.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/9\/8303\/28624818073_cbc747a11e_c.jpg\" alt=\"Pond\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/9\/8068\/29137441952_7acbb69372_c.jpg\" alt=\"Ducks\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c6.staticflickr.com\/9\/8433\/29245613605_565509819d_c.jpg\" alt=\"Boardwalk\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite the poor weather forecast, we actually lucked out and had some views of the mountains on this little walk:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c7.staticflickr.com\/9\/8226\/28957504910_15d432a969_c.jpg\" alt=\"Mountains\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/9\/8354\/29137428232_05e703c254_c.jpg\" alt=\"Reflecting pond\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then we headed over to a different part of the park and walked along the Bow River Trail where we go to see the rushing Bow River up-close. This river starts at the Bow Glacier, which we passed near while driving south the day before, and flows south through Banff National Park, then on toward Calgary.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c7.staticflickr.com\/9\/8367\/29207767222_c615c5a0d0_c.jpg\" alt=\"Bow River\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c5.staticflickr.com\/9\/8463\/29207749372_cd25861f5f_c.jpg\" alt=\"Bow River\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c3.staticflickr.com\/9\/8343\/29028030930_e683df02da_c.jpg\" alt=\"Bow River\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c7.staticflickr.com\/9\/8119\/29283469846_b051d23322_c.jpg\" alt=\"Bow River\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/08\/canadian-rockies-day-4-icefields-parkway\/\"><< Day 4: Icefields Parkway<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/20\/canadian-rockies-day-6-lake-agnes\/\">Day 6: Lake Agnes >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 31, 2016 When we woke up this morning it was totally socked in. The forecast said &#8220;mainly cloudy with<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/canadian-rockies-day-5-bow-valley-provincial-park\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Canadian Rockies Day 5: Bow Valley Provincial Park<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[174,178,175,179],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1890"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3093,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions\/3093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}