Here's a quick map that I did so I could get a handle on distances etc. Calgary to Canmore is about an hour (20 minutes if DEEB is driving). From Canmore as a home-base, really nice roads, destinations and vistas are within easy reach (Great choice, Blake). Jasper would, for me, be an over-night side trip if we wanted to do more than just drive there and back without taking anything in, but it would definitely be worth it.
Banff/Lake Louise, Radium and Golden would all be really easy days and a couple could probably be joined together (not crazy about the broken windshield reports on the road to Golden). I do want to note that I will be spending a lot of time in the car with my wife and she'll want to see some of these places beyond the washroom pit-stops. If Andy & David's wives are coming too, I won't be alone having this issue.
You guys who live/have lived out there are best equipped to keep refining the plan, but I like what I'm hearing so far, and now that I can visualize some of the distances involved, it all looks like it could be an awesome time!
Keep up the great work and let's finalize dates related to locations so we can start booking flights and rooms as this will get tight if we wait too long, I suspect.
Thanks!
Mark
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