Albertans and British Columbians have enjoyed this unique offering since David Thompson explored and mapped the area back in the 1800s. By helicopter, it’s a 40-minute, staggeringly beautiful flight.ĭespite that remoteness, Fortress isn’t unknown. If you choose to get there on foot, you’re looking at a 25 mile hike So I watched the fish rise and the sun drop, then crawled into the sleeping bag and soundly drifted off, knowing I was only a couple miles from a helipad where I would catch a morning flight to Fortress Lake.įortress Lake is buried deep in the Canadian Rockies, north of Banff, east of Golden, and northwest of Cline River. I knew I wouldn’t get checked, but licensing is kind of a cardinal rule in our family, and I didn’t want to be the one to make our track record go down in flames. Maybe discover a fly-fishing wonderland that hasn’t been demolished by IG. Any other time I would have fetched a rod from the truck and just thrown. Then I saw a rise, then another and thought, either whitefish or cutthroat. The lake was milky, glacial fed for sure, and I doubted a fish could survive in it. I just backed up so the bed of my truck faced the water, and popped open a beer. I don’t know which lake I camped next to. So I hustled in, got a bag of Doritos and a half-pound jerky, plus a twelver of Alexander Keith, and called it a party. Unfortunately, the restaurant was closed and the convenience store was soon to be. Wanted to get where I was going, find a solid campsite, and then relax with a dinner and a beer. I figured there would be several options in Cline River and hadn’t stopped at Fairmont or Radium Hot Springs, nor Lake Louise-all offering excellent dining-to do so. The restaurant was key because I wanted to get something good for a birthday dinner.
, is a simple outpost in the Alberta wilderness that offers a motel, a campground, some old-school gasoline pumps, a small convenience store and, a restaurant. I was nine hours into the drive before I realized that Cline River isn’t actually a town and, instead
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