Bragg's Creek Provincial Park turned out to be a gravel parking lot, a couple outhouses, and a path down to the river. (Well there was a trail you could take, but couldn't yet because of the snow and ice.) So we drove further towards the mountains, into Kananaskis Country and stopped at Elbow Falls, "Alberta's picnic spot," as a park ranger put it. The day was warm (high 67F?) and people were crawling all over the rocks. Some were even in the river!

At the information center on the way we learned about the best hike for starting out: Moose Mountain. It's a five hour hike, total, to a ranger's lookout at 8000 feet (Calgary's about 3500 feet) and back. Upon looking it up just now, I learned to my surprise that the area around Moose Mountain was in Brokeback Mountain. Check it out here. (I still don't think this tips the balance in favor of me wanting to see the movie...)

Anyhow, we did take note and some time after May 15--since that's when the snow's melted enough to open things up--we should be driving our little Accent to the Moose Mountain base camp, loading Sherpas with tents, food, oxygen tanks, and sleeping bags, then begin to trudge forward to scale the heights.