Lake Louise is a stunning turquoise-colored glacier-fed lake. It's an extremely cold lake, but it's beauty more than makes up for that.
We started out wanting to take a leisurely stroll around 1/2 of the lake. We read that it was a 5.2km (about 3 miles) hike to the Tea House. We had just hiked the HooDoos the day before and this trail was better, so we decided to go for it.
We saw many rock climbers around the lake...here's Austin showing us he can climb rocks with no gear...GO AUSTIN :-).
Kyle and Reeve did an awesome job keeping up with everyone. A couple of times Kyle had a shoulder ride, and a lot of the time he wanted to go back, but overall he did excellent for being 4.
We just didn't know what to expect when we set out. Initially you think oh 3 miles that's easy we can do that, but when you're hiking over a mile up in elevation 3 miles can seem like FOREVER. Many times on the trail we thought surely we've hiked 3 miles...it can't be much farther. Well some in the group made it up to the Tea House in a cool 2-2.5hrs and the talkers (Auntie & Me had fun talking) made it up in about 3 hours.
It was an incredible accomplishment for my Aunt, because she has asthma. She was awesome though and not once did she say she wanted to turn around.
Our reward for the long journey was lunch at the Tea House. We had delicious sandwhiches, soup, fruit drinks (no tea for us) and their famous home made chocolate cake.
We felt really good after lunch and we were looking forward to the easier hike DOWN to the lake.
You can kind of see how high we went in this picture...Lake Louise is in the background and we are very near the top where the Tea House was located.
1 comment:
That certainly was a fun day! The boys were like billy goats climbing all that way!!
Attention Blog Readers...If you decide to take this breath taking stroll in the alpine, then bring some $$$ to the tea house as AMEX/VISA just won't cut it!
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