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Originally Posted by Hackslack
I leave my house at 05:30, on the trail at 0615, back for work before 0900 after a 1.5 hr mountain bike.
“Day trip” makes it sound like Calgary is far away
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But really it is a day trip for the vast majority of people, realistically. In minimal traffic, you can get from the farthest western suburban edge of Calgary, if you’re near the Transcanada, to the eastern edge of the mountains, in about 45 minutes. That’s still a 90-minute round trip, and that’s the best case. If you’re downtown it’s a two-hour round trip, even in a zero-traffic situation. My sister lives in Mahogany, and that’s 80 minutes one way.
Generally speaking, it is not the case that Calgarians have access to the Rockies to like, pop in for a quick jog or bike ride or whatever. It’s just a little too far away; it’s a prairie city with mountain adjacency, not a mountain city.