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Most people tend either to cruise Hwy 1's rapid stretch of the Trans-Canada without stopping - knowing that the road north of Lake Louise is more spectacular still - or leap out at every trail and rest stop, overcome with the grandeur of it all. On Greyhound or Brewster buses you're whisked through to Lake Louise in about forty minutes; if you're driving, try for the sake of wildlife to stick to the 90kph speed limit. The vast fences that march for kilometre after kilometre along this section of the road are designed to protect animals, not only from traffic but from the brainless visitors who clamber out of their cars to get close to the bears occasionally glimpsed on the road. You won't have to be in the Rockies long during the summer before you're caught in a bear jam , when people - contrary to all park laws, never mind common sense - abandon their cars helter-skelter on the road to pursue hapless animals with cameras and camcorders.
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