I encourage you to check out a post from a friend of mine:
http://pinkthunderpuss.spaces.live.com/
"The Travesty of Grace"
I met Lou on my train trip in 2004. I think she has nailed down grace better than anyone else. I think it also helps that I know her personally, rather than just a writer.
Scott.
As an addendum to the previous post ... the road we climbed can be seen on this image from Google Earth (click the picture to see a larger one). We were about 5600' up, Canmore is 4300', and for reference Ha Ling Peak is 7500'. This image from Google Earth is looking due West, the images at the bottom of the previous post would have been looking due East. I highly recommend getting Google Earth (free at http://earth.google.com ) and checking out Canmore for yourself. When you put your mouse to the top right corner you can move sliders to zoom in/out, change your angle of viewing, and your direction.
A housemate of mine, when I first moved out to the West, told me that pictures don't do justice to the mountains. We agree; however, we'll try to give you a glimpse of our weekend to Canmore. 
Lisa worked at the Rundle for the summer in 1998 so that was the natural place to come back too. The nice thing is that this is low season ... so good rates!
We went for a tour of the expensive houses on the north side. We were able to get up pretty high and we were pretty impressed with the view ...
Here are the three sisters (above). You should recognize them from some of the first pictures ...
Next we wanted to go to the south side and see the view from the Nordic Centre. This is where some of the Olympic games were played in 1988.
We got up there and then we found we could go higher ... if you look carefully you can see a road going along the right side up towards the tower in the centre ...
We are getting up pretty high here ... so much so we are almost in the clouds! (Low clouds, yes, but still clouds).
Ha Ling peak (above).
This is as far as we went on the road, the tower is just off to the left
And when you turn around you have an amazing view of Canmore!
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