Blogs from Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada, North America - page 2

We'd flown to Vancouver but we had a wedding to attend in Saskatoon roughly 1000 miles to the east, so that meant hopping in a hire car and heading out on an epic road trip! If you look at a map of Canada that doesn't look like much of a distance, but I blame Canada for that, for being ridiculously large. Over six days on the road we crossed two mountain ranges, visited a former gold rush area, a wine region, and numerous national parks, where we saw nature of awe-inspiring beauty. We'd hardly left Vancouver when we had the first beauty spot, the Capilano Suspension Bridge. Any frisson of fear from walking along a small bridge over a gigantic ravine was somewhat dampened but the hordes of tourists, but nothing could interfere with the sheer ... read more

7/17Neither of us slept well having been up since 5am because of smoke permeating the room and Dave's sick cough from hiking in the smoky air. We came down for an early breakfast in the hotel because I had planned to go back into town for lunch and a walk making the most of our stay in Banff but decided to stay in the Banff Caribou Lodge where it was warm and less smoky. People are coming in with warm jackets and the cold breeze blew into the lobby with them where, after checking out at 11am, we sat reading, sleeping, and trying to keep warm while waiting for our bus to Lake Louise. Leaving Banff felt like leaving Australia or New Zealand or even London as most of the workers here are from these regions, ... read more

We took a day trip to Lake Louise. About 50min drive from Banff. The ski chair lift at Lake Louise takes you to the top of the mountain with stunning views of the area. On the way up Gary captured a photo of a grizzly bear with 2 cubs.... read more

Softly falling snow turned my eyes from the thus invisible panoramas of mountains and lakes to the natural sculptures of snow by wind. The green of the pines was so dark as to seem black. The light so subdued that white was blue. Human activity barely disturbed the silence muffling my ears. What people were doing was building the whimsical Lake Louise ice castle, using water as mortar between the heavy translucent blocks of ice. Circling farther onto the hard lake were tourists, most stumbling bravely in their rented skates, a few spinning confidently across the imaginary rink cleared of snow.... read more

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