Trip to Banff, Lake Louise, Jasper: advice?
We are planning a trip to Banff, Lake Louise, and Jasper traveling from the Northwest USA. Looking for the best time to visit and places to stay. It also sounds like it would be best to get a an...
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If you are a hiker, the Lake Louise area is essentially paradise -- for example, the hike from the Chateau up to the Plain of the Six Glaciers is world-class:
After we got up to the foot of the glacier, we just sat there for a long time, watching (and listening to) the occasional ice-fall.
And if you want a bird's eye view of the Icefields, I strongly recommend Wilcox Pass:
If you are interested in more pictures and text about this whole area, please feel free to click on our blog link, below -- we have a series of entries dated October of 2012, even though we were in the Canadian Rockies in September.
This was the trip of a lifetime -- and this coming autumn, we are hoping to return to the mountains of British Columbia (the Kootenays, the Selkirks, the Bugaboos, the Cariboos, and maybe more).
After we got up to the foot of the glacier, we just sat there for a long time, watching (and listening to) the occasional ice-fall.
And if you want a bird's eye view of the Icefields, I strongly recommend Wilcox Pass:
If you are interested in more pictures and text about this whole area, please feel free to click on our blog link, below -- we have a series of entries dated October of 2012, even though we were in the Canadian Rockies in September.
This was the trip of a lifetime -- and this coming autumn, we are hoping to return to the mountains of British Columbia (the Kootenays, the Selkirks, the Bugaboos, the Cariboos, and maybe more).
