Jasper to Lake Louise - now we're talking

Lake Louise
24th August, 2018

Today we saw the Rockies. Finally.
After some rain overnight we headed south towards Lake Louise. We had booked tickets for a Glacier Walk and Glacier Rim walk on-line and needed to travel about 90 minutes south to the Athabasca Glacier on the Columbia ice field.

The rain got heavier and the fog closed in as we finally pulled up at the Glacier's Discovery Centre. It was going to be a wet visit. But then ... the rain turned to snow and we boarded our Snow Transporter and headed for the glacier. It was magical ... it stopped snowing and the sky started to lighten.

We stayed there for 20 minutes and then headed for the Glacier Rim walk with a glass floor. It's a great feat of engineering and it hangs on the edge of the canyon.




















We headed back to our car and continued south. It seemed that every corner we turned there were magnificent peaks reaching impossible heights while at the bottom was a naturally light blue lake.

As we continued south we came across a pine forest which had received snow over night. A steep path then led to another lake - it was magical. Walking through the snow covered pine trees reminded us of the scene from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe when the children push past the fur coats in the cupboard to find there is no back to the wardrobe but rather a forest of pine trees, covered in snow.

We finally got to Lake Louise and the Fairmont Chateau Hotel. It would be pretty hard to find a better location for a hotel. Impossible peaks with Lake Louise at the bottom, right at the hotel's doorstep.
Magical.

The hotel is huge - probably 2,000 or so guests in all its various wings. But it's location and history makes it one of the best hotels we have ever seen.

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  1. UnknownAugust 24, 2018 at 9:53 PM

    Fantastic stuff. Glad the smoke disappeared for you.

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