Yoho ho tra la la lah! June 8-9

After spending the night in a noisy Lake Louise campground in Banff National Park in Alberta, we continue North and west back into BC to Yoho National Park. On the highway they are stopping all cars and saying that the road is only open as far as Emerald Lake due to an avalanche that has blocked the highway to Golden. It is raining anyway so we spend the day just looking around and scouting possible photo locations and being optomistic that it will either clear up later for an evening shoot or tomorrow. We decide to camp at the Kicking Horse Campground - not that we had a choice since it is the only one open. In fact not much is open for the season yet in the park. The famous Lake O'Hara shuttle hasn't started to run and we aren't equipped for interior backpacking/camping. It didn't clear in the evening so we spend our time playing cards in a cooking shelter where it was dry and relatively bug-free. The sun really did come out in the morning though giving Ron some photography time with Cathedral Mountain (above) and a mist covered Emerald Lake (below).