Banff National Park

Downtown Banff

 June 2 Foggy & drizzly morning, 45 degrees as we headed to the village of Banff...several “to dos” on our list.....first stop the tourist information center. We then took a walk down main street and discovered the McDonald's that someone had told us had free WIFI...needed to update our blog. So we planned to eat lunch there and do the blog posts for May 31 & June 1.

Bow Falls

 After lunch, we drove to Bow Falls..another beautiful area.

The next stop was Sulfur Mountain where we planned to ride the Gondola to the top! YIKES! If anyone knows me well, they know I don't really relish heights, but I really did want to go to the top of this mountain just for the scenic view it provided. By this time, the fog had lifted and we boarded the gondola about 3pm. Well worth it!! Absolutely amazing pictures and we have included a few here.

At the top of Sulfur Mtn.

Mr. Skunk enjoying the view

Focus Gary!

  

Heading back to our campground in Lake Louise we decided to take the scenic route 1A, which, according to everyone we talked to would be abundant with wildlife. However, after almost an hour's drive on this slow, curvy road we had not seen anything wild, but did get a few beautiful shots of Castle Mountain.

Right before our turn off 1A towards Lake Louise what should appear but a grizzly bear! Wow, that made the whole trip worth it and Gary got some good shots of it. We were about 50 ft away on the road.

Decided to try Lake Louise again on our way back to see if it was less icy today. It definitely was and we got some nice reflection pictures..