June 27 2011 Banff Alberta

Lake Louise with Linda and Dick

throwing snow

Moraine Lake and us!

Elk in our park

Monday June 27 2011
Went into Canmore to get groceries at Sobeys, nice town, very touristy though.    Prices quite high, but Linda and Dick got groceries a few days ago at Safeway in Canmore and the prices were even higher there.  We came back to trailers and had lunch then headed for Lake Louise and Moraine Lake, they are pretty close together.    Moraine Lake is the picture on the back of our $20.00 bills.  They are both absolutely beautiful.  Tooks lots of pictures.  On the way we saw a few crossings for wildlife, pretty cool, amazing how they know to use them.  While in Lake Moraine we heard like a thunder noise and finally figured out it was an avalanche up in the mountains.  Didn't look very big but must have been bigger than we could see when we could here the thundering noise.  Took pics of that.  Then went over to Lake Louise, the last pics I saw of it were from Doug and Darlene and it was frozen when they were there and i think that was in May.  The water is very cold but it was all thawed and beautiful colours, that greeny blue.   Passing between the two lakes (up the mountain) we saw a place where there had been a rock avalanche that had come across the road and wiped out the guard rail and all the posts were broken off.  Must have been not too long ago as everything was still hanging down the  side of the mountain.  Lake Louise is 220 ft deep and the water never gets about 50 degrees F.  Got back to our campsites and had happy hour and the neighbours beside us came over, really nice people, he is working on the highway projects around here.  Lots of laughs.  they are from Vancouver Island.  Had dinner then went for a walk around the park, everywhere you turn you see a mountain, awesome!

Avalanche at Moraine Lake