Blogs from Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada, North America - page 15

Road Trip Through the Canadian Rockies + More (6th - 16th August, 2006) Toronto to Vancouver to Revelstoke (Lake Williamson Campground) An early morning flight out of Toronto to Vancouver. After picking up a car at the airport we headed for Revelstoke. It was certainly a very scenic drive with snow on the mountaintops. Revelstoke to Yoho NP (Takakkaw Falls) Drove up to Mt. Revelstoke. Spectacular mountain views. Fantastic wildflowers and firs. Very, very pretty. We drove on through the Glacier National Park, over Rogers Pass (1327 metres) and through the towns of Golden and Field. We were given a recommendation in Field to camp at Takakkaw Falls. Sensational campsite. Set on the river, beneath the falls. We saw some columbian ground squirrels around the campsite. Had a great fire that night and watched the moon ... read more

Got up early today for an awesome roadtrip. To start it all off we (Jim, Ali, Jase and Kat) drove the 2ish hours to beautiful Lake Louise. As those of you who know of it or have been there will expect, it was PACKED with tourists, but it didnt phase us. We hiked a little to the end of the lake to get some more great photos, and on the way back saw an old guy playing "Amazing Grace" on some kind of tribal horn. It was all very soulful and us tourists sang along as the bells in the tower of the hotel chimed. For lunch we travelled on to Moraine Lake, which is the most intense green/blue colour you will ever see. Apparently the waters here get their awesome colour because of glacial sediments... ... read more

Friday Landed into Calgary to wet weather. They’re been suffering from torrential rainfall, so made our way to Banff which was about an hour away by car and the weather was sunny and bright. Saturday Started with the Moose Network Athabasca tour, which would take us to Lake Louise, Rampart Creek, Edith Cavell, Jasper and back to Banff - a 4 day trip, but we decided to stay an extra night in Lake Louise. Tour consists of lots of hikes and sight seeing walks, which is a must as the scenery here is absolutely amazing (breathtaking - you’ll be out of breath walking all day:-) ) which was what we were expecting - typical Canadian scenery (girls sorry to say no Mounties). People are overly friendly - going out of their way to help. Haven’t got ... read more

Hello All, Here's a few photos of what we have been upto since our last blog! We have had a few visitors over the last couple of weeks - Courtney and Dave came up from Portland for the Easter long weekend, and then Mel's Dad and his wife Mandy from Australia. We had a great time with the Americans (Courtney and Dave) (they really took to the 6 toy Koalas Mark's mum sent over!), the visit was short but we all had a great time!! (remember guys you are more than welcome to visit again in the summer :) Then Mel's dad and Mandy arrived (after a 12 hour wait at San Francisco airport! ugh) and we began plotting and planning our Road Trip to Lake Louise!!! After a couple of days seeing the sights in ... read more

Banff continued to be an amazing part of my trip. We met some great people and decided that we wanted to stay around a bit longer than planned. We noticed in reception a sign looking for volunteers so we enquired what that was all about. It turned out that if you volunteered to work in the hostel between 9am-1pm during the day, you could get a free nights accommodation-BRILLIANT! Or so we thought! The next morning at 8am, Lucy and I awoke and resentlfully got up...my tonsils were on fire and I considered pulling a sicky but figured on day 1 that wouldnt go down too well! Also, it was probably self inflicted considering for 3 nights straight we all played drink driving, (a drinking game with cards in case you were worrying!!)...and had been downing ... read more