Mount Rundle & Banff Springs Golf Course, Canada

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• Picture / Image:  Mount Rundle and the Banff Springs Golf Course, Alberta, Canada
• Publisher:  Bryon Harmon Photos
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Mount Rundle is a mountain in Banff National Park overlooking the towns of Banff and Canmore, Alberta. The mountain was named by John Palliser in 1858 after Reverend Robert Rundle, who had visited the Banff area during the 1840s.^[1]

Mount Rundle is formed of outcrops of massive limestones of the Rundle Group, which was named for the mountain and defined here in 1953 by R.J.W. Douglas.^[3]

Mt. Rundle is one of the most popular scrambles in the area and is relatively straightforward for experienced hikers. However, one must be careful not to follow the huge watercourse encountered about 1/2 way up even though a well worn path coaxes the hiker up. There is no scrambling route along this route as the cliffs get higher and more vertical. The real route crosses the watercourse and then immediately turns left (watch for markings). As one passes treeline, the hiker ventures onto a feature called the "Dragon's back" where the route narrows between two steep gullies. The only real obstacle at this point is perseverance at the tread-mill like scree which slows progress to a two steps forward, one step back pattern. Mt. Rundle could actually be considered a small mountain range as the mountain extends for over 12 kilometres, with many high points along the way, ending at Whiteman's gap above the town of Canmore. Another scramble, East End of Rundle, is accessible from its starting point at Goat Creek.

The Fairmont Banff Springs or simply the Banff Springs Hotel is a former railway hotel constructed in Scottish Baronial style located in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. The original hotel, designed by American architect Bruce Price,^[1] was built between spring of 1887 and 1888 by the Canadian Pacific Railway, at the instigation of its President, William Cornelius Van Horne. The hotel was publicly opened on June 1, 1888.^[2]Starting in 1911, a wholly new hotel was built in stages to replace the 1888 structure. The new hotel was designed by another American architect, Walter S. Painter. Compared with Price's Shingle style-influenced wooden structure, Painter's new hotel was built of concrete and faced with stone.^[3]