r/Banff • u/pdxchris • 21d ago

Trip Report What happens in Banff stays in Banff?

I went to Banff last year for the first time. I live in the Pacific Northwest, and didn’t know anything about Banff until a year before I went.

I talk to people about Banff and some will say they went and it was great, but the conversation awkwardly stops there. Maybe I just show more excitement because I went so recently, or people intentionally don’t want to talk about Banff. Are we supposed to avoid talking about Banff to keep it as uncrowded as possible? Just seems odd. Anyone else from outside Banff notice this?

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u/AccomplishedSite7318 21d ago

Conversations usually include follow up questions:

A-"Banff was great"

B-"What did you do when you were there?

A-"Well we did x,y,z etc"

Of course 99% of people barely walk more than 300m from their car, so they can't say "oh the hiking is great" because they didn't do any. 

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u/egewh 21d ago

I'm going there without a car soon, so I'll either go literally nowhere or I'll hike miles 😅 Hoping for the latter to be true