Copyright 2019, CABS for Reflections From the Fence
June 22, 2019
Woke to sunshine and NO rain and cool temps. I saw 30 on the weather bug in the middle of the night.
Man is itching to get moving. Soooooooooo
Pulled out of camp at 9:40.
First stop. Town of Banff. Found it to be chalet intense, lots of tourists. Glad we saw it. Parking was an experience, even with The Estate. First place we pulled in a local came along and pointed out a no parking sign we did not see, saved us a possible $50.00 fine.
We walked around town. Visited the Banff Visitors Center, getting the scoop. Grabbed a Subway, cause all the other eateries were either not open yet or had no canine friendly tables outside. We only had two hours of parking, and, mmmm, we sorta did not record our start time, ooopsie. So we grabbed the sub and headed back to The Estate.
We took 1A north, the Bow Valley Parkway. Tried a stop at Johnson Canyon for water falls, no parking, we expected. Kept driving.
Castle Mountain pull off.
Just after that we drove through the Castle Mountain campground. Very woodsie. As we drove through we see a number of peeps acting all excited. Seems there was a black bear up on a hill in the woods. I saw the bear, barely (see what I did there?), Man did not. No photo.
Internment camp pull off
I don't know the name of this beauty, but have seen quite a bit of it through the park.
Baker Creek, where The Estate posed with some local peeps.
Walked back to bridge to get photos of the "creek"
A bit more down the road:
Yes, that will be a glacier wayyyyyy up there - -
We stopped for a River View. Bow River. We took a short walk to a view point that was elevated. Had to walk through a bit of water run off to get out there. It was worth it.
Then a train happened.
Checked in at Lake Louise campground. We snagged the last campsite late last night. The busses and transit to see Lake Louise are currently a 1.5 hour wait in line for the bus.
They told us when we checked in there is a mama bear with two cubs in the campground. Word is she is getting testy with peeps bothering her. She can have the right of way, don’t cha think.
After we checked out our campsite and did some reservations for tomorrow, we first attempted to walk to the front of the campground to catch the shuttle to town. That was great exercise, physically and in futility. Never found the shuttle so got back in The Estate and drove to “town”.
At the Visitors center we spent some time with a very nice young woman who gave us the scoop. Works out to go back to camp, nap and drive up to Lake Louise after 7 pm. We can do that.
Soooo at 7 up we went. WOW. Best part of the day. The water is a teal color because it is glacier runoff water. It has to do with silt and sunlight reflecting from stuff - - ohhhh, go research it - - it's cool stuff.
Then we drove over to Moraine Lake. View along the way - -
Look at that color - -
During the ride we wen to about 2030 meters altitude. Came down in 2nd gear and had to brake! There was a sign that seemed to indicate a 75% grade? That just does not sound right, we think someone erased the decimal point. LOL.
Grizzlies at the end, just before we got off the mountain. Well, I think they are grizzlies. Momma and two babies.
They were eating dandelions! Look at the greens hanging from Mom's mouth!
88 miles today, including the trip up the mountain. And Carol has 10,000 steps. Altitude at campground was 5023 feet, give or take.
Tomorrow the Icefields and beyond.
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