I just got back from a tour in the canadian rockies-- about 380 miles down Icefields Parkway from Jasper to Lake Louise, then the Golden triangle (LL to Golden to Radium to Castle Mt to Banff) ending up in Banff. We saw bears almost every day-- about 8 black bears and cubs total plus a grizzley. It is buffaloberry season, which draws the bears down to the road to nibble on berries. Fortunately, the bears were engrossed in eating and not in us on our bikes, at times riding very slowly past with loaded touring bikes. The grizzley was huge and particularly intimidating!

We camped every night and found good support in the canadian campgrounds for cyclists-- bear boxes or even special cyclist food storage huts.

We were on the transcanada for a bit between lake louise and golden. It's pretty but some of the riding on that road was challenging due to wind, rainy weather, poor shoulder (or no shoulder, in the descent into Golden) and rock falls (yes, rocks were falling as we rode past on the way into Golden) and rock fall debris on the shoulder. There are some photos on my blog if anyone is interested