This was the first time we'd seen the berg lake at the foot of the glacier frozen over (below). The floating bergs were still there but were locked in by the ice sheet.
We said our good-byes to Shawn who was headed back to Grande Prairie & went our separate ways. We took a couple of photos at a random lake along Hwy 93A (above) before stopping at Athabasca Falls (below).
The weather didn't get much better for the rest of the drive to Lake Louise. In fact it seemed to get colder. The cloud cleared breifly at Tangle Falls (below) so we stopped to eat our lunch & take a few photos of the falls. The wind was howling & there was no standing around out in the open despite the sun.
A couple of mountain sheep on the road were about the only other interesting thing for the drive.
We arrived at our hotel in Lake Louise (the Deer Lodge) only to find out that we couldn't check into our room because it wasn't ready yet. It was a sign of things to come. The room was tiny, the bed was collapsing on one side & the heating in the room was about 5 degrees too hot.
In disgust, we set off to Banff for dinner. The drive back was made difficult by no line markings on the road works & no moon thanks to the cloud cover. The oncoming traffic made it difficult to look for animals on the road.
