Travelog post for: Pitzelpatz

Hi Mum,

Today we went skiing in Lake Louise ...where, to be honest, the morning temperatures were not really spring-like . Here we were leaving the base of the mountain on the Grizzly gondola.



As we went up the view improved .



Later we reached the top of a chair called “Top of the world”: very fascinating name although maybe a bit of an overstatement as there were plenty of higher peaks around . For instance that one behind me is Mt Whitehorn, from where, apparently, in the afternoon smaug decided to practice tumbling downhill in a quite disorderly fashion . Luckily by that time we had already left his backpack and were relaxing at lodge, otherwise we’d be a bunch of much thinner TVs now .



Here there’s the opposite side of the valley behind me. Those seemly harmless clouds soon covered us making it almost impossible to tell the snow on the mountain from the clouds with everything turned into a milky fog .



So we didn’t take any more picture on the mountain. We tried  our luck later in day at the village, but again we were pounded by a blizzard.



We eventually drove over to the lake that gives the name to both the village and the ski resort and the weather decided to give us a break . This is the west side of the lake...



...while the eyesore behind me is the Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise, one of the most luxurious and pricey hotel in the Rockies .