Day 12 – That’s a Wrap!

The time has come to head back home. Our flight home departs at 11:15 AM from Calgary, so we need to be on the road early. We’re taking a bit of a chance booking a morning flight while staying in Lake Louise in the winter, but we didn’t want to be arriving home too late in the day. We had packed up the car the night before, so just had to pack up a small bag in the morning and grab a quick snack in the room, before heading out just after 6 AM. Next year, I think we’ll settle for a late arrival in Toronto, and be a little more leisurely departing on our last day!

We made it to Calgary without difficulty. After stopping to gas up the van, we dropped off the rental and checked in for our flight. After only a snack in the room before leaving, we had brunch in the lounge before our flight.

Below is Nadine getting settled in for the flight.

We made it safely back to Toronto, picked up our luggage, and headed home to Newmarket. It was another great trip to one of my favourite destinations!

Day 11 – Last Day Skiing

It’s always sad when you get close to the end of a trip. Today we awoke to fabulous weather, and it looked like our last full day here would be a great one. Our plans for today… Skiing, of course!

Here we are outside waiting for the shuttle bus under beautiful skies.

After a short bus ride, we were at the ski resort and heading up the hill. Here is the familiar view from our first run.

We spent the rest of the morning and afternoon having a great time on the slopes, and are greatly looking forward to returning again next year.

Back at the hotel, while we still had some daylight, we went for a walk by the lake.

Here are a few images from out on the lake.

It would have been great to have had these clear skies for our dogsled, snowshoe and cross country ski days.

We were slowly making our way to the back of the lake, to see the views we had on our day of snowshoeing, but with clearer skies. Unfortunately, Nadine wasn’t watching her footing carefully enough, and stepped into a big puddle on the ice surface. After stepping in water over the top of her boots, we headed back toward the hotel, which basically ended our outdoor walk today! Fortunately, the hotel has a very large boot drying machine behind the ski valet, which we took advantage of.

Here are a couple final images from our walk back to the hotel.

After getting cleaned up (and dried off), we headed down to the Alpine Social for our final dinner of this trip.

Day 10 – Back to Skiing

After a day of cross country skiing yesterday, Nadine was feeling a bit tired, so opted to relax around Lake Louise. I, however, was eager to get back to the slopes.

I had a quick breakfast, and headed over to the hills. Instead of stopping to take photos, I pretty much just skied advanced runs all day long, so I don’t have much to report. Just a fun day on the slopes!