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Banff:Sept 7th
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| Tea House hikes |
| Tavern 1883 |
| Sortie: Not all exits lead to a town called Sortie, apparently. |
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Lake Louise
Start of hike
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Starting the ascent up
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Higher up
We're up quite a bit from the lake now, but still much more to go.
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Mirror Lake
With the Beehive behind it
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Mirror Lake
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Still going up
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Beehive
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Stairs!
Seems kinda cruel after all that elevation gain we just did.
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Tiny falls
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Lake Agnes Tea House
We made it!
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Lake Agnes
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Tea House
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Tea House
Menu - We split a hummus sandwich (forgot to take pictures, too tired)
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Tea House
Menu - We got the Blueberry Beehive tea. It was really good.
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Lake Agnes
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Tea House
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Tea House
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Map
From the tea house, we backtracked to Mirror Lake. We're now going to take the highline trail over to the Po6G tea house (it's off the upper left of the map).
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Highline trail
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Highline trail
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Highline trail
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Highline trail
It sprinkled on and off during the hike to the other tea house.
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Chris
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See how far
We started at that hotel in the distance.
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Highline trail
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View of Lake Louise
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View of Lake Louise
Zoomed in
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View from trail
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Highline trail
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Highline trail
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Chris
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Mountain goats
I don't know how they saw them, but we ran into some other hikers who spotted these mountain goats. If you click and zoom in, you can kinda seem them.
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Mountain goats
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Mountain goats
Max zoom
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Baby mountain goat
Adorable!
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Mountain goats
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View
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View
It's hard to see, but there is water coming down from above.
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View
That's Lake Louise, we started at the far side of it!
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Trail
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Trail
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Po6G Tea House
Finally there!
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Po6G Tea House
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Snack
We split a piece of chocolate cake and some tea
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Info
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Glacier
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Glacier
Location in 1904
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Glacier
Location 2003
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Glacier
Now
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Glacier
The trail continues past the tea house, but we're heading back
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View
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View
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Heading back
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View along trail
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View along trail
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Michelle
Enjoying the view. But really, wasting time as we let faster hikers pass us.
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Lake Louise
Still a long way to go
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Lake Louise
Zoomed in
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Michelle
Looking for rocks
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View
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Trail
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View
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Stream
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Stream
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Stream
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Chipmunk
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Stream
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Stream
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Stream
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Stream
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Getting closer
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Trail
The water level is pretty high
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Boardwalk
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Only 2.4 km to go!
We came from the tea house, 3.4 km away.
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Lake Louise
Weird, wet sandy area by the lake
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Colorful wall
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Michelle
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Chris
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Chipmunk
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Views while driving
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Views while driving
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Views while driving
Sortie
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Views while driving
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Views while driving
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Tavern 1883
Quinoa Falafel Burger
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Photo album generated by album a tool written by Dave on Tue Oct 18 08:24:02 2016
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