Cottage vacation Winter Activities in Alberta

Alberta has great natural settings to let you totally get immersed in ample of winter activities of all sorts. There are certain activities, which can be unequivocally enjoyed in Alberta when you use the advantage of on Alberta cottage rental vacation. Let us take you through a round for having an idea about a few winter activities as great lifetime adventures to make your vacation fulfilling.

Ice Climbing and Ice Walking
Strange beauty of the valleys and gorges can be delightfully enjoyed by the guided walks in Jasper’s Maligne Canyon and Banff’s Johnson Canyon. Climbing on the steep slopes of Yamnuska Mountain is a challenge. You can get into this thrilling activity according to your choice for a whole day climbing engagement or for more days. If you get fascinated to ice climbing, you can undergo to a crash climbing training course in climbing school. There are plenty of facilities in Alberta to let you devour the beauty by ice walking. In fact, walking is the only way for one to squeeze down every drop of natural beauty to the heart.

Skating
The roots of activities on the ice may have come to you right from the time you were in school and did skating in indoor arenas, as a common happening in school days. Skating in Alberta is the natural manifestation of the activity, overtly different in feelings. A much known places for skating is the frozen lagoon in Calgary’s Bowness Park. The other popular skating place for skating are Banff’s Lake Minnewanka and the Vermillion Lakes. Playing hockey on frozen grounds is too thrilling, but it needs a lot of training and practice. For excitement of ice hockey, you must visit Hawrelak Park in Edmonton to see the Silver Skate Festival.

Winter Railway Tours
There is exclusive pleasure of taking a rail journey through the mountains in winter. Here you can take a deluxe multi-day journey of Rocky Mountains called Canadian Rockies. The journey opens up splendid panorama of snow filled valleys, frozen waterfalls and deep ravines of wilderness, never possible to enjoy otherwise.

Ice Fishing
After your engagement in hectic winter activities, you can take this relaxing, but much enjoyable ice fishing. In winters you get maximum catch of whitefish and perch besides some trout, pike and walleye. It is some kind of feeling as real inhabitants of the world of ice to dig a hole on the surface and lower a line. You can do the exercise almost any where you like on the frozen lakes, but it is better to check with local authorities for regulations. Banff area offers plenty of scope for ice fishing with guides and scheduled places for the activity, the Spray Lake in Kananaskis being the most popular. If you are a lover of reel angling, there is no problem as you can get all the support for it.

Aerial Sightseeing
You can devour the overall fabulous beauty of Alberta area; take the airborne view on helicopters or fixed wing airplanes. There are regularly scheduled flights for this purpose.

Dog sledding
Dog sledding brings back all the relaxation to lovingly active phase, which every individual of your family will love to spend time with. Commanding the pack of trained sled dogs offers spectacular charm in viewing the nature around in a very traditional way.

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