Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Day 15: Exploring Banff National Park


On the early morning walk with Ranger, I discovered that I had really made a mistake on the reservations.  When we walked into the section called “Trailer Park”, it was composed of regular campsites with trees and grass and a bit of space between you and your neighbor.  Who would have thought to reserve in the “trailer park”?  I stopped at the kiosk to see whether there were sites available to which we could move, and after a bit of doing, we were re-assigned for the next two nights into the nicer section.
Since we needed to unplug and pack up anyway, Dan suggested that we drive around the park and explore.  We headed to Cascade Pond and walked along it for a bit (no birds to speak of), then drove to Johnson Lake where we hiked around the lake, a distance of about 3 km, and had a picnic lunch.  As the day went on, it seemed that all the interesting sights were increasingly full of people, and by mid-afternoon we headed back to our new campsite to set up and relax. 

This was the coldest night so far, and I ended up getting up at 4:30 am to plug in the electric heater.  The flip side was waking up to beautiful clear skies and a forecast of upper 70’s.  Perfect for the day ahead!

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