Time to move on, to Banff. It was another cold and overcast morning but nothing to do about it, just get going. We took the Bow Valley Parkway and stopped at every spot the book said was worthwhile. It’s just that on an overcast day, not many of the stops …
It had snowed overnight, but it looked like the sky was going to clear a little bit during the day so we drove to Moraine Lake, hoping to find 4 other people who would hike with us to Larch Valley. There is a law in Canada that during increased bear …
The day was just as grey as we were afraid of. Just some light drizzle, but very low cloud so the only thing clear was that we couldn’t shoot any landscape today. We decided to drive through the Kootenay NP, which normally is good for wildlife sightings. Except on a …
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 …
We had some good photo ideas from yesterday’s hike around the Emerald Lake, so we decided to go there again and see the same in the morning light. Except, the morning light was extremely diffused, with a lot of high cloud (and a touch of smoke I’m sure). So I …
There’s plenty of interesting things to see here, natural and unnatural alike. We had decided to skip the further exploration of the Glacier NP so we had an extra day at Yoho NP instead, and this gave us a chance to hike up to the Hoodoos. The weather is great …
