Weekend Photos: Canadian Rockies
Last week's post featured a hike out of Moraine Lake. Today we'll take a look at a few more lakes on two hikes. After our crowded hike at Moraine Lake, we decided not to use our bus tickets to Lake Louise the next day , but instead to do a highly rated but much less populated hike to Helen Lake and Dolomite Ridge. My companions settled for Helen Lake, but I pushed on, despite a fierce and cold wind, to get the views from the ridge into the next drainage. First we stopped at Hector Lake for what we hoped would be sunrise photography. Dang it, the sun forgot to rise! We then moved on to the Helen Lake trailhead to be among the first up the trail. The sun did eventually come out, at least in spots. Sun spots and glacial lakes. Ptarmigan, maybe just starting to turn switch to the white winter coat. Just short of this spot we met a pair of somewhat flustered hikers, bear spray in hand, who'd just seen a mother grizzly and cup. We were not lucky enough to see them, though I fou