Basically what ur talking about doing would be classified as random camping and it's perfectly legal in lots of areas. As was previously mentioned I would head to the old man river area south of calgary (about 1.5 hour drive down highway 22x). As u head south on highway 22 u will cross the oldman river and see a large closed gas station with a red tin roof. Head west at that gas station about 30 minutes and u will hit the forestry road. If u have buddy's with u there are lots of campgrounds they could stay at (racehorse, Dutch, and the oldman are the main ones). Dutch would be perfect, they could camp there and u could head west of the campground and into the bush to have your adventure. Lots of streams out there for water and fish, lots of deadfall to build your shelter, be careful it is bear country but there are enough people around that u likely won't see any. I've been going back there for about 20 years and have only seen beers on 2 occasions and they were both black bears.
Best of luck.
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