In the morning we headed back toward Lake Louise, the gem of the Rockies, under cloudy skies that quickly turned to rain as we proceeded back north.
Our luck held, however, as when we arrived the rain had fallen off, and it only spat at us now and then as we walked to the upper end of the the lake, returned, and hiked to the lookout at the southeast corner of the lake.
We made sandwiches and ate them at the lakeshore, while watching people from all sorts of ethnic groups taking souvenir photos. If one sat there for an afternoon, one could learn the old joke "move just a few steps back" in dozens of languages :-).
Lake Louise must be one of the most photographed places in the world, so I include no photo.
It rained again on the road back to Banff, and rather than hike Tunnel Mountain, we decided to wander around the town. The gardens around the admininstration building were still beautiful.
Posted by Paul at September 14, 2004 08:58 PM