Onward!

We left Lake Louise in the early afternoon continuing down the Icefields Parkway toward Banff.  On our way we stopped at the "Spiral Tunnels", which really aren't, but are an elongated figure 8.  They straddle two mountains and were built because the original gradient was so severe that freight trains regularly lost their brakes and crashed.

The spiral tunnels were built by two teams of men who planned to meet in the middle.  Although they were built long before the days of modern electronics, when the two teams met in the middle they were only 20 cm off, an amazing feat!

This stop was particularly significant for those of us who were travelling west because we would later travel through this engineering accomplishment on the Rocky Mountaineer train.

But today we moved on to Emerald Lake, deemed by some to be the most beautiful sight in the Rockies.  You can be the judge!

We left the beauty of Emerald Lake behind and went on the see some of the power of the water in this area at Kicking Horse River, where the river kicked its way through the rock.

 Then on to Banff for the next two nights!