I think about writing often, but after finally submitting our immigration paperwork (a multi-month process), I’ve taken every opportunity I’m not working to do something mind-numbing. Lately, I’ve been knitting a sweater.
I thought I’d post a little about our trip to Banff in August, though.
We were both pretty exhausted from a wedding and honestly spent a long time after catching up on sleep and hoping we weren’t getting sick. I just went through the pictures and they’re kind of painful to look at because I look both tired and I was recovering from a stress rash on my face.
We book-ended the trip with time in town, but the main trip was backpacking to some cabins in the the mountains (It’s called Shadow Lake Lodge). It’s more like glamping. It’s a 8.5 mile hike in, but you only have bring a day bag because they have cabins and they cook gourmet meals for you the whole time you’re there. The food was honestly better than most restaurants we’ve been to together, so it felt particularly luxurious. It was drizzle-y on our hike in, but we were lucky to have good weather (or weather we could plan around) the whole time.
We did this panorama hike and it was hard to capture how colorful it felt to be among all the wildflowers. You can see them in pictures, but it just felt more vivid to be around them.
Once we got through the trees, it was so lovely to be in a big open meadow surrounded by large mountains. It felt unreal.
We struggled to find the train to go up the last peak for a while. It ended up being a teeny-tiny cat trail marked by a wimpy cairn.
We had lunch and hung out on this first ridge for a while. It was basically the view.
But Scott wanted to go up the next ridge. I thought I’d hold out, but he coaxed me to finished it, since we were there and all.
We could see the lake near our cabin from this high up, but it looked so much more blue at this angle. It looks unreal, but I swear it was really that glowing color.
We ended up doing the 1 mile hike to the lake once we got back down. It was still very pretty.
On our last day, we did sneak over to Lake Louise while we were there. We woke up early to try get to the parking lot before 7am. I would say that it’s a very nice lake, but is probably so popular because it’s accessible. I couldn’t really capture it.
We ended up doing the hike up to the Tea House, which was also very pretty.
By the time we got down, the sun was hitting the lake differently and it was really blue.
Anyway, so that’s what we did after the wedding. I literally still have a draft post of more books I’ve read for July, but I didn’t get to push “send” yet.