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After breezing through Banff to get to Calgary I picked Claire up at the airport to go back and explore Banff! We got some brunch and stopped by Monogram coffee (a must after discovering them in Winnipeg).

We started heading to the rockies, and stopped by some lovely views. and this campground had a warning for... splotch bears...

After an attempt to go north, I took a wrong turn and we ended up in BCs Yoho National Park. My first time ever in BC, and the farthest west I have ever been in Canada! The campground was right by a short winding drive to this wonderful waterfall hike.

We decided we wanted to do 1 of the teahouse hikes. Lake Louise has exploded with popularity, so we had to arrive super early to get a spot in the parking lot. We arrived before 7am to get a place, and the lot was already filling up. We decided to do the Plain of Six Glaciers teahouse and got started. Park of this trail is shared with horse tours. We made it to the teahouse. The food was delicious and we munched it away before I got a chance to take a picture and Claire decided to hike down some garbage for the teahouse :)

The whole hike was absolutely gorgeous, but the last leg took us to this view and we sat for quite awhile just appreciating the views.

We got one of the best sites at Mosquito creek (no mosquitos!) and stayed there for a couple days with lots of yummy food made.

Picture here is a very sophisticated experiment that we did because we were curious what the temperature difference would be depending on the current. We will be publishing next year, hit me up Science.

There was a forest fire near by so it was fairly hazy. We popped over to Peyto lake for views of another glacier lake.

And back to Calgary to drop Claire off at the airport. Before she left we got 1 more meal in Calgary which turned out to be a pizza food truck in a residential alley. Farewell Claire! I'll see you again on the west coast :)