Sulphur Mountain

My mom is always looking for a hiking buddy. She loves to go out to the mountains and go on hikes - but the rest of us aren't as enthusiastic. However, she may have just found a new hiking buddy... Logan!

Today she and Logan went out to Banff and hiked Sulphur Mountain. I did some research to see what the web had to say about the hike.. it's 5.5 km. Elevation gain is 742 metres. Hike Alberta categorizes it as a Strenuous hike and says it should take anywhere between 2-5 hours.

It took Logan and my mom 3 hours from bottom to top with very little complaining. 

Logan loved his first hike. And apparently he did awesome. He was by far the youngest hiker there (the next youngest was 9 years old). Everyone they passed was in shock by how little/young he was and what a great job he was doing. There - that's the end of my little brag session.

He did make grandma stop and take a break to throw rocks in the waterfall for a while though. And they also had to stop for a snowball fight! (It's funny, Logan was just talking yesterday about how he was excited to make snowballs in the winter).

Once they reached the top they settled down for a picnic lunch and enjoyed the views from 7,402 feet. Logan decided to share his cheesies with an overly friendly chipmunk.

My mom had found coupons for a free ride down the mountain in the gondola. (I don't think Logan could have hiked back down!) Logan was yelling out the window to all the hikers down below: "You can do it! I did it! So can you!"

Once they got back down the mountain Logan burned off the last of his energy by playing with his new slingshot grandma bought him.