Lake Louise, AB

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We only did one hike right in Lake Louise but it was a good one! Beautiful day and almost made it up to the top of Fairview Mountain. Amazing scenery! Check out the BLOG!


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Our first view of Lake Louise in the morning, it’s beautiful, not a cloud in the sky!

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View of Chateau Lake Louise from the trail on the way up, could just barely see the lake.

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Admiring the mountains

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Made it to the Saddleback! Tough 3.7 hike to here and 595m elevation gain from the trail head. Yes those are the mountain tops with ice!

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Another snow topped mountain behind us, this is the one we could see from the campground, see next pic.....

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This is that same mountain, shows you just how high up we were.

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The saddleback gave us a great view of the surrounding mountain tops.

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Trees are almost gone

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This is where we called it quits and ate a much needed lunch, yes it was hot!!!

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It doesn’t look like that much further up from here but it is...look closely and you can see people trekking up.

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Maybe next year....

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View of the of Fairview Mountain summit from the saddleback...the arrow shows you how much further up we hiked.

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Another view of the Chateau on the way back down.

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Much easier to hike back down!

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This is a look down at the campground we were staying at in Lake Louise

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The lake was a lot busier when we finished our hike in the afternoon

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Busy around the Chateau as well



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