Lake Louise hike
8 września 2022, Kanada ⋅ ☀️ 37 °FThis was our major hike of the trip; the tea house hike. Uphill all the way to the teahouse.
This was our major hike of the trip; the tea house hike. Uphill all the way to the teahouse.
If you stay at the Fairmont you get reserved Lake Louise parking. Since we stayed at the Sheraton 4 points Calgary West, and one night in Canmore, we had to park in Banff and take the bus
Moraine Lake is the iconic Canadian lake. It was beautiful, but I actually liked Lake Louise better.
Our first stop on the icefields parkway to Jasper.
We were surprised by the amount of snow that fell the previous night.
This was the “sleeper” scene of the trip. We’ve seen a lot of falls around the world and weren’t expecting to be impressed, but this was gorgeous!
Heard a lot about the lake and the drive in…would have been a little disappointing except we got to see a bear on the way out!
We had been joking via text messages with our friends Mo and Sharmini about only seeing stuffed bears on this trip; but the following day we saw a real one on the side of the road eating berries! Thus Czytaj więcej
So it turns out Jasper had a significant forest fire the day or two before we were there. It burnt up the electricity transmission lines; they were saying the town of Jasper might be without power for Czytaj więcej
Got to spend a wonderful evening with Geetha and Achen in Spokane on the way home.
The crazy pic is what happens when you drop your phone right as you take the picture 😃