We wake up and leave
the pretty early and for good reason. We are going to Banff NP and
trying to get a good campsite. We arrive at Lake Louise, AB around
9:15am and drive directly to the camping. We get campsite G2, a
non-electric site, for two nights. We stop at the visitor's center
to the check the weather. It's pretty cloudy, but we don't know if
tomorrow will be any better. So we decide to do a big hike around
Lake Louise. We hike first up to Mirror Lake (2.7 km) and then to
Lake Agnes (0.8 km).
The trail is pretty busy with tourists, as
there is a tea house of Lake Agnes. In fact, the trail is much
calmer once we hike up to the Big Beehive Lookout (2.3 km). Most of
the hikers we meet at this point are French speaking. One couple
even has family in Belfort, close to Yellow's home. The French
speaking world is small. The view from the Beehive is extensive, but
unfortunately it's very hazy and cloudy. However, we can definitely
see Lake Louise and it's intense Robin's egg color.
We have lunch in a
gazebo, feeling a bit chilly. We go down the Big Beehive and go up
to the Plain of Six Glaciers (4.7 km). Again, another tea house
located on that trail made it pretty busy. This trail brings us to
the front and center of a circle of six glaciers. Underneath the
glaciers it is very rocky and sandy, as they have have diminished a
lot in size in the past century. Up in the cliffs, we saw a mountain
goat chilling out above the valley. We hike back down to Lake Louise
(6.8 km) with some difficulties after our big hike two days ago in
Glacier NP. The last 2 km are fortunately flat beside the lake shore
of Lake Louise and absolutely filled with tourists: a lot of Germans,
a bunch of Japanese and Chinese, some Spanish, and a right amount of
French. We get back to the RV in the afternoon. On the way to the
campsite, we buy a gallon of milk for $6.80 in order to enjoy some
hot chocolate after our long hike.
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