Lake Louise

A look at the past week in photography in the Bow Valley as it appeared in the pages of the Rocky Mountain Outlook.

From Banff to Lake Louise and Canmore to Kananaskis, there are dozens of galleries and museums showcasing talented artists and history from across the country.

“We have also been made aware that it is the delta variant that we’re dealing with here in this valley, which is very transmissible, and only about 30 per cent effective with one vaccination dose.”

Banff and Lake Louise fire crews battled a fire that broke out at the popular Bistro restaurant at Baker Creek in the early hours of Sunday morning.

A look at the past week in photography in the Bow Valley as it appeared in the pages of the Rocky Mountain Outlook.

“We obviously can’t mitigate the natural ignition sources like lightning, but the fire ban helps limit opportunities for human-caused ignitions and hopefully that makes a difference.”

“If the SAEWA project is successful, we will be able to reduce that distance by 50 per cent for many municipalities and also have the ability for municipalities to have long-term budgeting for municipal works based on a dependent tipping fee at a facility that they actually have some control over. We can come up with a long-term dependable solution with predictable economic costs as well as environmental benefits.”

“We don’t know enough of what that would entail and we know it would mean additional resources, but we don’t know right now what those resources would be because we have to take some time to research what the most effective and efficient way of delivering the pass program regionally would be.”

“We’ve been getting a lot of positive feedback from the cycling experience from people the last year-and-a-half. We’ve also been getting feedback from people who really love the scenic drive and want access to those day areas."

PHOTOS: The last week in the Bow Valley had the province fully reopen from public health restrictions, which saw businesses fully reopen and tourists come en masse to the mountain communities.