What time is it there?!

This is an area to the west of Lake Louise so we went on a little tour to have a look as we had done Lake Louise in about half a day! This involved driving along the Kicking Horse Pass which was the other train route that we could have taken, but by doing it this way we were able to see the best bits of both.

The highlight of this route is the Spiral Tunnels which really are an engineering masterpiece. To reduce the gradient on a big hill, 2 spiral tunnels have been carved into the mountains to make the slope half as steep. The freight trains are extremely long and as a result, you are able to see the front of the train coming out of the tunnel, whilst the half way point of the train is still entering the tunnel and the end of the train is still passing in front of you. Sounds a bit anoraky (or should that be train-spotterish?!) but it made for some great pictures as right on cue a train arrived!

This was about all we saw on this day trip as many of the roads that we wanted to go up were closed due to the season, forthcoming snowfall and 'Bear Activity'. We made it to Emerald Lake which was pretty green although it was so cold up there that we didn’t hang around for a canoe ride!