Lake Louise

The first stop today was planned to be a 3 hour hike at the Johnston Canyon to the Ink Pots. Unfortunately most of the trail was closed due to renovations (again 🫠). So we just did a 1 hour walk during sunrise to a waterfall and then continued on to our main stop for the day, famous Lake Louise.

We had heard that the parking lot can fill up pretty quickly so we were lucky to get a spot at around 8:30 am. From there it was just a little walk to Lake Louise and a magnificent scenery. We took a few pictures before going on a trail leading around the lake and up in direction of the glaciers, more specifically the Teahouse (like a mountain hut but they didn't have any tea!) at the six glacier plains and the following lookout. We had a rest and some snacks before moving back to a junction where we decided to include another hike. Unexpectedly it was a quite tough hike with a steep climb up to Beehive Mountain but the views were absolutely breathtaking!
From there it went just downhill, first along Lake Agnes and it's teahouse then steadily to Lake Louise. We had thought about renting a kayak afterwards but the hike had tired us and there were none available at the time we came back.

Apparently the parking lot of the other famous lake, Lake Moraine, had filled up already at 6am this morning and usually fills up at 3 am 😵‍💫. Therefore we decided to take the shuttle service up there the next day. For the night we stayed in a huge hostel with an adjacent restaurant where we treated ourselves to a good dinner and some local beers.Lue lisää