Sunday, June 23
We were up early in the Walmart parking lot in Calgary, where we stayed last night after thinking our first site was a bit sketch. I was excited to find that the local Tim Hortons (Canadian version of Dunkin) had my favorite donut Canadian maple. Then it was off an hour west to Banff NP in the Canadian Rockies. We stopped in the town of Banff at Surprise Corner for a great view of the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel with the Bow River in the foreground. Then we pulled up the road a little to Tunnel mountain overlook and the hoodoos that Rachel climbed in 2010.
Then we drove north on Highway 1 and the Bow Valley Parkway to get a first come first serve campsite at Protection Mountain before catching our shuttle bus at noon to Lake Louise (you can’t drive right up there anymore yourself). And of course it rained and was mobbed by people, so we had to wait for some glimmer of blue sky. Then we caught the bus to Moraine Lake, where we also had rain and rock scrambled up the rock pile for views. Hunkering down in my poncho for over an hour, I waited for the skies to clear! It was worth the wait! Then it rained again as we made our way to camp.
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