So MANY people! I thought Glacier was crowded! We attempted to go to famed glacier fed Lake Louise and the Fairmont Hotel this morning. But when we were diverted to the ski area for Park and Ride with the next available shuttle 6 hours later…. the party was over. We will try again very early tomorrow morning. There were easily 1,000 cars in each parking lot. This was like Glacier National Park on steroids. Crazy!
We did spot the Victoria Glacier that supplies Lake Louise. It is almost 500 feet of ice.
We were trying to guess the depth of this snow or when it will avalanche! It has to be several hundred feet.
Plan B. We drove back to Banff and visited Canada’s first National Park the Cave and Basin Historic Site. The hot springs and cave were discovered by railroad workers in the 1880’s. Heavy in sulfur, I can’t imagine wanting to swim but the spring was pipped to fill a large swimming pool and it was a huge attraction.
I guess in the winter the hot spring pool would feel great at between 98 and 104 degrees. The pools have been modernized and moved up the hill a bit.
We took a scenic drive to see Two Jacks Lake and Lake Minnewanka. The area was full of big horn mountain goats loosing their winter coats.
Deep below the surface of the lake's pristine waters is the sunken resort town of Minnewanka Landing built in 1885. While it used to bustle with tourism and life, its only residents are now trout and the occasional scuba diver.
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