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We had a long hike planned today, and I had read that rain might be coming later in the
afternoon today, so my goal was to get up at 7am for an early start. Unfortunately it was
already raining then. Not wanting to cook breakfast in the rain, I stayed inside until the
rain finally stopped around 8am.
It was still raining off and on lightly as we made breakfast. I checked the up-to-date
weather forecast on my Sidekick, and afternoon thunderstorms were still in the forecast.
Tomorrow's weather looked better.
I had to decide between hiking to Lake Agnes or Bow Glacier Falls. Eventually, because
of the forecast, I decided to go for Bow Glacier Falls today and Lake Agnes tomorrow.
My reasoning was that the start of the Bow Glacier Falls trail was next to the lake, so it
wouldn't be so bad if we had to turn around -- at least we would have enjoyed the lake.
If we had to turn around before reaching the Lake Agnes teahouse, that would not have been
fun.
So, off we went on a 22 mile drive north along the highway (back toward the Icefield Centre)
to Bow Lake, where we started our hike to
Bow Glacier Falls.
After the hike, we drove back to the grocery store at Lake Louise village to pick up some
supplies. We stopped by the campground entrance to buy permits for 2 more nights of
campfires. When we reached our campsite, blue sky started to appear above us. After dinner
we tried to start a campfire. Unfortunately the wood was so wet that it was creating a lot of
smoke, almost all of which (because of the gentle winds) was heading into a neighboring campsite.
They came over to complain, saying maybe we should try to find some drier wood. Never mind the
fact that they had a huge pile of dry wood underneath their tarp that they could have offered to
us. They were probably thinking, "stupid American campers." None of the free firewood is
covered, and we hadn't thought to cover any before the rain started, so we gave up and put out
what was left of our campfire as it started to rain lightly again.
I spent several minutes drying some of our clothes in the car as best I could. Thankfully our
hiking clothes are synthetic and dry pretty quickly. I just used the car's fan vents to dry
everything for the next day of hiking.
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