Golden to Lac Louise

We stayed at Kicking Horse Hostel in Golden.  We found this hostel on Warm Showers network.  The woman who runs it wasn't there, because it wasn't open for the season yet, but she let us use it.  There were some cats so I fed them.  

These are some goats we saw on the highway.

This is after the Kicking Horse Pass summit, which is around 1630m elevation. 

We passed this lake a bit before the Welcome to Alberta sign.  

We had been told by a BC park's staff member, on the phone, that we could camp in the Lake Louise park, but only in the electric fenced off are.  The electric fence is to help keep bears out of that area.  If you're using a soft sided tent or trailer you must camp there.  When we got there it didn't look very open, so I called the park office to double check.  Turns out we weren't allowed to camp there because the electric fence wasn't turned on yet for the season. So we stayed at a hostel in Lake Louise. 

Before leaving for Banff we decided we should bike over to see Lake louise because we were already there.  We were so happy after passing the Welcome to Alberta sign, because we wouldn't have to climb mountains... but this lake is 4km all up hill, a steeper climb than some parts of the previous mountain passes.  This lake is pretty, but we were pretty upset about the climb we didn't expect. 

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