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Originally Posted by CorporateWhore
I've seen Calgarys skyline (naked eye, not camera) from the entrance to the Rockies/Kananaskis, which is probably about 80/90kms away. Had to hike up 6 hours to the top of a mountain to do it though. I'm sure you could see it deeper in too, if the other mountains didn't get in the way.
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Yamnuska or Moose mountain would be my guess here, probably Yamnuska. Either of those are the typical "holy crap I can see Calgary!" locations.
You can see it from a lot deeper into the mountains. Calgary actually has one sneaky advantage here - go to the top floor of the Bow, and look for the furthest peak you can see. THAT is how far you can see Calgary from.
There's actually a plugin someone wrote for Google Earth years ago that helps in determining this. It basically works out what can be seen from any point on the planet, taking into account curvature of the Earth and landforms, etc.