The day started in Priddis. But we got up early and drove to Mount Temple, to climb it. We had decided to go today, because the weather would be better. And the weather was nice, in Priddis. Around Lake Louise the weather was decidedly more inclement. It was okay when we started out, at around nine. But it soon started raining. We persevered and we seemed to get a new form of weather every half hour. Although my other half looked rather cranky for the first part. I was too, but that was until I ate some trail mix; I hadn’t eaten for too long.

When we reach Ministemma lakes, we stopped for lunch. It was sunnier, and everything felt better. Then up to Sentinel Pass. Lots of pictures were taken. The we kept climbing up. We had no intention of getting to the top, but we got to the cool ledge, made for taking exciting pictures. There we had another lunch and then headed back.

We took too long, and we’re running behind schedule. So we ate a lot of snacks in the car instead of stopping in Lake Louise for dinner. Probably for the best, because the town was very busy and had a traffic jam. We wouldn’t have been able to get a dinner in a reasonable time. So, we had a long drive to our next stop in Falkland, B.C., where we had an Airbnb to go to. Don’t be surprised if you have never heard of Falkland. But it was a good stopover to let us arrive in Vancouver over two days.

The planning could have gone better. I figured it would be easy to find the way to the really small town (hamlet?) Except I was thinking like an urban prairie dweller. There was no cell access in the mountains. So my map plan was not reliable for a long stretch. The only other map in the car was twenty years old. But a combination of the two got us here.

It is now very late, and I need to sleep.

2016-7-19 23:55