The morning dawned dark and rainy. Not much to do about it, so we just drove off to Lake Louise. When we got there, we found ourselves in snowfall.. or sleet anyway. It was cold! Quite a contrast to the sweating we had to do at the hoodoos on Monday in scorching sunshine.

We didn’t really know what to do, because this weather was clearly not presenting any photo ops. I had taken the picture just to show the conditions… my trousers were soaking wet after it (my rain poncho doesn’t really do anything for the legs) and my fingers were numb with cold. But since there wasn’t anything else to do, we drove to the Moraine Lake and found to our great joy that the weather (and visibility) was better there.

A bit of a wind going on though, and with what the dull sky the lake for the most part wasn’t all that glorious as you normally see in the pictures taken at Moraine Lake. There was one corner of the lake however that showed the true colours. Truly amazing… when I was up here back in the 90’s, it was early summer and the lake was still mostly covered by ice, so this was new to me. Wonderful!

Having taken our pictures, we drove to the hostel in Lake Louise, checked in and had a lunch and tried to figure out what do with the remaining daylight, considering that it was getting better all the time. We ended up taking the Lake Agnes hike and had a nice cup of hot chocolate in the tea house. It somehow seemed appropriate with what the snow on the ground and all…

When we got back, I just wanted to hook up the Powerbook to check out my photos so far, and to write this blog (yes, the previous entries are all backdated, in case you hadn’t already figured it out). Now I’m tired! Here’s hoping to better weather tomorrow. Even if the forecast says it will get worse.