Trip to Banff, Cananda

Some of the family went to Banff, Canada for our family vacation!! It was an incredible place, once we got there. We had bought a suburban so we had room for more of our family and it decided to have transmission problems along the way. We were blessed to be in a town, Shelby, Montana, when the transmission would not shift out of 1st. We found a repair shop, found a way to rent a different car and continued on with our vacation. The Canadian Rockies are truly spectacular and we saw and did wonderful things. We hiked, camped, saw 5 bears, 2 moose, many deer and other wildlife. We went out on a glacier, walked around, it was awesome. Eph and Steve, climbed Mount Temple, the rest of us went up a ski lift and had a spectacular view, of both the valley below, Lake Louise and Mount Temple. It was a great trip.















Kathryn testing the waters of Lake Louise. Notice the glacier on the mountain in the background.









Kathryn and Amy on Athabasca glacier in Jasper National Park. So cool to walk on the glacier.


















Kathryn, Steve, Amy, Eph, Mandy and Ellen on the glacier


























After walking on the glacier with a group, Eph, Mandy, Kathryn and Steve put on their crampons and used ice axes and went for a walk. It was fun for them and I loved watching them, as did many others who were wondering if they could also do it wearing the "funny shoes"!

















Steve, Amy, Kathryn and Ellen at Bow Valley. The lake is green because of rock flour, ground up rock from the glacier grinding over rocks and that being deposited into the lake. The light reflects off of the rock flour and gives the lake a green color.
















We hiked up Johnston canyon, to lower and upper falls. This is us at upper falls. Great hike and beautiful all the way.















Moraine Lake and the valley of the 10 peaks. Wow what a place. We hiked around this lake to the inlet, a glacier-fed stream.