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LETTER: Looking forward to paved pathway

Editor: Thank you, thank you, thank you to the Town of Canmore for the excellent job you are doing so far this season of maintaining the paved section of the Three Sisters Pathway. It was such a treat to walk it this week, with it being cleared of snow

Editor:

Thank you, thank you, thank you to the Town of Canmore for the excellent job you are doing so far this season of maintaining the paved section of the Three Sisters Pathway.

It was such a treat to walk it this week, with it being cleared of snow promptly and some much appreciated grit being applied to improve traction. This is how a world-class walking and biking community maintains its winter trail network.

Not only does this help us to meet climate change goals – does everyone remember we are in a climate emergency? – but it promotes active, healthy living and allows people of all ages and abilities to get around without a car.

After breaking both of my wrists in 2018 when I fell while ice skating on Lake Louise, I’m super concerned about winter walking conditions. As a regular user of the Three Sisters Pathway, this is the best I have seen it.

It will certainly encourage people to walk and bike all winter, if only we can improve the treacherous section from the public boat launch through West Canmore Park past Prospect Heights to Van Horne St.

Parts of that section become a glacial version of the Grand Canyon after the first freeze-thaw of the season, while other sections are like a luge run.

I can’t wait to see it widened in sections and paved next year so it can be similarly maintained. It will make it much, much better and safer for both people walking and biking year-round, but especially the long months when it is snowy/icy/slushy.

Mandy Johnson,

Canmore

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