GPS Audio Tour Guide of the Canadian Rockies

Much of the information on Peakfinder is now available through your radio as you drive along the highways of our mountain parks . The Sawka Tour Guide, (GPS-Audio Tour Guide of the Canadian Rockies) presents over thirteen hours of information in a pleasurable and entertaining manner as you travel along 1,300 km of our mountain highways. As you enjoy the views, interpretive information related to what you are seeing is automatically played over your radio. It’s the ideal way to connect what you are actually looking at to the natural and human history of the mountains.

There are no instruction books, maps, brochures, tapes, cd’s, or odometer settings to worry about. Just plug the STG device into your cigarette lighter and start driving. Through the magic of GPS, as you reach each of over 1450 locations along  our mountain highways, the corresponding audio information is transmitted to your radio.

All the roads in Banff, Kootenay, and Yoho National Parks are featured, as well as the Trans-Canada Highway from the mountain front to the park boundary and the Icefields Parkway to Jasper Townsite. You choose where you would like to travel and when. Your STG tour guide is always there with you.

Dave Birrell, the author of www.peakfinder.com is the "virtual" tour guide. You will also hear the voices of highly regarded Canadian Rockies writers such as Ben Gadd  -author of “The Handbook of the Canadian Rockies,” Chic Scott –author of “Pushing the Limits –The Story of Canadian Mountaineering,” and Michael Kerr -author of “The Canadian Rockies Guide to Wildlife Watching” and “When Do They Let the Animals Out -A Field Guide to Rocky Mountain Humour.”

Units may be rented through the Friends of Banff National Park at the Banff National Park Information Building or at the Bear and the Butterfly. Both are located on Banff Avenue.

For additional information please visit: www.stgcnd.com or email Dave.

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