This was our third annual journey to the Rockies for a bit of hiking. As usual, we drove to Calgary and spent the night prior to driving to our camping area the next day. We chose Mosquito Creek, which is approximately 27 km north of Lake Louise, on the Icefields Parkway. Mosquito Creek is more of a transient campground with many trailers and such coming in the evening for a one night stay before moving on. The campground was full every evening and many had to drive on to find a site somewhere else. There were only a few of us there for a longer period. Mosquito Creek is a very good campground with a lot of nicely treed sites with a lot of space between them. For the most part, the place was quiet, with the exception of some traffic noise from the highway and a group of loud young men on our last night, who slammed car doors and bellowed until the early hours.
The Rockies are quite a draw for international visitors. We encountered a lot of Germans, Dutch, Americans and some Swiss and locals, of course. The Americans tend to be the most friendly and happily gush about the splendour of the Canadian Rockies. The majority of people rent motorhomes and seem to spend a lot of time inside of them rather than out. And we think we have a lot of gear packed into our small car, but then we are continually astonished at the monstrous motorhomes and trailers that pass through.
Bow Glacier Falls
By the time we got our tent set up on Sunday, we didn’t have much time for a long hike so we went on a short hike to Bow Falls, just up the highway. The national parks are loaded with tourists who meander along at a snail’s pace. We had to spring past them for only a short distance as they generally do not go very far before returning to their tourist buses. The walk to Bow Falls is very short and very easy, we found a nice rock to sit on near the falls and had our lunch before returning to our campsite for dinner. Please feel free to click on the pictures to enlarge....
Bow Lake with the falls and Bow Glacier in the distance
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