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We just got back from our vacation trip to the national parks in Alberta, Canada: Banff, Lake Louise and Jasper. One day before our trip the weather forecast said rain, rain, rain for the whole week. In the end it wasn't that bad, we had some moments of sunshine. The parks are unbelievable with stunning wilderness beauty, pine forests, snow covered mountain tops, lakes, canyons, rivers, glaciers and ice fields. We had brief encounters with two black bears, some deer, elk, mountain sheep. We did some hiking carefully choosing the easiest trails (if you're an out of shape software engineer with pregnant wife you don't want to overdue it). The rain was a disguised blessing. We realized that when the sun came out and the mosquitoes started swarming all over us.

Pictures here.