Its possible your cat has contributed to the healthy diet of the local coyote population. In which case you can take some solace that you have supported America's wild predators.
fleecy
I paid $3 in park fees in the last year you're just a sucker tourist and you should pay through the nose to subsidize ppl like me. and YOU WILL. haha!!
Can't afford it can you poor boy. That's what happens when your president wrecks your economy. A couple years ago this would have cost you about 50% less
Last summer I went to Glacier NP AND Waterton Lakes. Glacier was much less expensive and JUST AS nicely run/maintained etc.
I guess it's just part of the Canadian mentality to squander money through big gov't and get no real extra ROI for that extra expense.
Um, charging tourists high prices isn't squandering money. It's classic capitalism - setting the price as high as the market will bear Funny to hear you whining about basic Adam Smith stuff like that. If you don't want to pay the fees don't go to Banff. The millions of other tourists that do want to go can pay.
Mt Sir Douglas has an easy glacier route in K-Country
If you are by yourself and want to do snow/ice instad of rock cause its easier why not do the scramble route on Mt Edith. It is well described in the Alan Kane guide
dude wtf
why would you want to climb a snow route in september when you could climb some lovely rock?
also athabasca and andromeda from banff is like a 3 hr drive each way. double wtf. thats not "an easy drive"