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Day 54
23. June
2000, Rest day in Banff
Banff
is a really beautiful city. It is a popular Canadian ski resort with nicely
designed houses and surrounded by wonderful mountains and forests. There
is also a wide selection of shops even now in summer, probably mainly
thanks to the many Asian tourists (Japanese, Koreans but also Asian-Canadian)
who enjoy the mountains.
Banff offers all kinds of activities in summer such as golfing, mountain-biking,
river-rafting. Another interesting fact about Banff is the number of Swiss,
German, Austrian people living and working here. This has a long tradition
and the first mountain guides and skiers in Banff were from the Alps.
We ask one Swiss waiter about skiing in Banff. He says that the snow is
perfect powder but the pistes in the Alps are larger area.
Other news of the day is the scrutineering of our car in the morning.
But to the disappointment of some of our co-competitors this turns out
to be rather unspectacular: After ten minutes of looking at dampers, brakes,
engine-room, the chief scrutineer decides that there is nothing wrong
with our car.
Overall 1 hour 19
minutes penalty
The
official results can be looked up on this website
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Mountains just
before Banff
Many untamed
rivers flowing through the Rockies...
...ideal conditions
for river-rafting
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The main street
in Banff
Good thing about
North America: Everything comes with an instruction manual.
We use the rest day for laundry, haircut (for Kaya), etc.
Roberto and
Rita from Roma, Italy have recently come off road (damage still
visible on their otherwise beautiful Lancia) and they are currently
being scrutineered by Roger (with the torch) but as Rita's sign
says, they are OK.
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