Lake Louise, August 8-10

August 8: Lake Louise at evening from the hotel	August 8: sunset at Lake Louise	August 9: Lake Louise before dawn, from the room	Hotel lobby	Hotel lake side	Lake Louise at dawn Aug 8
Hotel at Lake Louise	Lake Louise sign	Canoes for rent! They recommended the dawn paddle (tomorrow!)	The lake at dawn	Mt Victoria at dawn	Lake Louise at dawn (with the morning camera squad)
Lake Louise at dawn	Disused pavilion on the hotel grounds	The lake from the pavilion	The lake from the pavilion	The lake from the pavilion	Our staff will be more then happy to help
staff doesn't look all that ready	The pavilion	hotel from the pavilion	hotel from the pavilion	bouquets on the hotel grounds	At Lake Louise, you tend to look for new ways to see the view
The lake in the morning	American Robin fledgling	Trail map - I decided to hike up the north side of the lake	The Big Beehive (I climbed to the top later)	Horses are a good way to see the trails	Lake Agnes teahouse
Clark's Nutcracker up close at the teahouse	Lake Agnes	notch with chock stone	Clark's Nutcracker	Clark's Nutcracker	Clark's Nutcracker
Clark's Nutcracker	Clark's Nutcracker	cliffs above Lake Agnes	Lake Agnes teahouse	Lake Agnes teahouse	Who the heck was Agnes?
Pika - cutest member of the rabbit family	Pika	Pika - also known as "tennis ball with ears"	Lake Agnes - pikas love scree like this	Pika	Pika
Pika	Pika	Pika	Pika	Pika	Pika
Pika	Lake Agnes	Pika	slides across Lake Agnes	Lake Agnes	crossing a slide area
Unknown leafy stuff along the trail	above Lake Agnes	above Lake Agnes	above Lake Agnes	crossing another slide area on the way up to the Big Beehive	Climbing to the Big Beehive
Lake Louise from the Big Beehive	Lake Louise west end (with canoes) from the Big Beehive	Lake Louise west end (with canoes) from the Big Beehive	Big Beehive shelter plaque	Big Beehive shelter	looking down from the Big Beehive
Red canoes on Turquoise Lake Louise	Big Beehive shelter	Big Beehive shelter	Mount Victoria with glaciers	Mount Victoria with glaciers	These look ready to fall - but it turned out a different glacier did that
Trail up the valley towards the glacier	Trail up the valley towards the glacier	Different vegetation in old avalanche paths	8-Aug 80 (2).jpg	More precarious glacier edge (that didn't fall)	looking up the valley
crossing another slide path along the trail	lateral moraines - the glacier was here not long ago	looking up towards the glacier toe	Fireweed patch along the trail	looking back down-valley towards the hotel	meltwater strem emerging from moraine
A chunk of ice fell far behind me as I was hiking back to the hotel	Falling ice was a little right of center	Looking down-valley	Horses on the trail again	Columbian ground-squirrel	washout along the silty trail
Pony train heading up-valley	flats at the west end of the lake	juvenile herring gull can't find fish in this water	looking back up the lake	Columbian ground-squirrel	Columbian ground-squirrel - there are those non-cute teeth again
Whiskey Jack	Winter wren catching a moth	Winter Wren	Winter Wren	Mountain on south side of the lake	Mountain on south side of the lake
Mountain on south side of the lake	Aug 9: Back to the hotel	Aug 10 - heading to the canoe dock before dawn	Aug 10: paddling Lake Louise before dawn	Mountain goat!	Looking back east
mountain goat location	Lake Louise before dawn	mountain goat again	south coast of Lake Louise	paddling Lake Louise at dawn	Lake Louise at dawn
south coast of Lake Louise	Lake Louise at dawn	head of Lake Louise at dawn	south coast of Lake Louise	Mt Victoria at dawn	head of Lake Louise at dawn
head of Lake Louise at dawn	The Big Beehive (shelter just visible on its top)	Paddking back to the docks	docks below the mountain	August 10: last photo of Lake Louise before heading north again