This tour includes transport from Banff to Kootenay National Park in British Columbia (around 45 minutes from Banff) for a 3km (1.9 miles) guided snowshoe tour. This tour provides an easy introduction to snowshoeing on a mainly flat terrain and guests will snowshoe up Ochre Creek Valley to the bubbling cold-springs and orange ochure used for thousands of years by the Indigenous people as a natural pigment. Plus, all snowshoeing tours include hot chocolate and a maple taffy treat made in the snow. Please note that water is not provided and you may wish to bring your own.The tour includes the use of snowshoes and we have hiking poles for extra stability if you would like to use them.