Karan Smith
Writer. Traveller. Sweeper of Cheerios.
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Roughing it with the city kids

8/5/2014

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Oh dear. I turn my back for just for one minute and there go my city kids hugging a bear again. I also catch them playing in the car at our too-beautiful-for words campsite in Banff National Park. 

But there are signs of hope too for my coffee-shop loving brood as I share in this essay for up! magazine. And the summer trip to this Rocky Mountain and aquamarine-river locale afforded them a chance to paddle like a voyageur, raft the Bow River and even see a real grizzly too. Because this corner of Alberta truly is an outdoor haven for families, however they take their lattes.
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Rafting with Rocky Mountain Raft Tours.
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Okay, not so-roughing it in a Parks Canada oTENTik.
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A thrill to see a grizzly on the Bow Valley Parkway.
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