Banff National Park - Day 3 - Columbia Icefield and Peyto Lake

We started out the day at Laggan's Bakery for breakfast and then picked up sandwiches to take with us up to the Icefields. 

We drove about an hour and a half to the Columbia Icefield and took a tour on the Athabasca Glacier. 

While we were on the glacier we filled our bottles with the water streaming down the glacier.

After our tour of the glacier we headed back down the Icefields Parkway and stopped at Parker Ridge for a trail that led up to a great view of the Saskatchewan Glacier. 

The alpine flowers were beautiful to see on our way up to this view. 

The next stop on our way back to Lake Louise was Peyto Lake. Vince took the steep trail down to the lakeshore while the rest of us walked through a nature trail by the observation decks. 

We returned to our hotel with a couple of stops along the way for wildlife sightings. 2 more black bears and 1 more grizzly. They were further away from us this time but still fun to watch.