Instead of skiing today, we decided to go snowshoeing! As you will see from the photos below, the views aren’t great, because it’s rather overcast and snowing heavily.

We set out along the north shore of Lake Louise.

Here we are passing by the little trickle of water coming down from Mirror Lake and Lake Agnes above.

We continued walking down toward the end of the lake.

When we reached the back of the lake, we watched some ice climbers on the cliffs above.

After a bit of a rest, we pushed on toward the Plain of Six Glaciers trail.

Here is Nadine standing below the cliffs above the back of the lake.

We’ve passed this spot many times in the summer, but this is our first time here in the winter.

We continued up the valley, mindful of our surroundings. There are risks of avalanche further along this trail, so we won’t be going too much further.

Here we are crossing a snowbridge over some water feeding Lake Louise.

We paused to take in the beauty of the area, with the sounds of trickling water in the background, as seen in the video below.

Notice the green plants growing in the moving water, even in the winter.

Continuing up the valley…

We pushed on a bit further, but this is about as far as we felt comfortable going, so we’re turning around now.

It’s roughly 3 km back to the Chateau, and the snow seems to be getting heavier and heavier, so we didn’t stop for too many photos on the return. It’s still beautiful out here in the heavy snow, but photography is really hard!

By the time we made it back to the hotel, it was a bit after 5PM, and we were getting hungry. Since we felt we got a fair amount of exercise in today, we felt we deserved a nice dinner. After getting cleaned up, we headed down to the Lakeview Lounge. We really like the lounge, with it’s big bright windows to the grounds in front of the lake, and a center of activity off the main hallway in the hotel. The food is also excellent.