Hiking in Yoho: Day 3 (Heading home)

On Sunday we woke up to a third chilly morning. We were still cold after breakfast, even with multiple layers of clothes on (the sun was taking it's sweet time to creep over the rim of the valley and the clouds weren't helping either), so we decided to hike up to Twin Falls again to warm up and catch the light hitting the Falls better.

To be fair I had to let Tom take a funny pic of me too... A couple shots of Twin Falls... not as twin looking in the morning since the cold kind of put a damper on the amount of melting:

On our way out from the little lookout trail we passed the Twin Falls Chalet. Apparently you can have lunch and tea here, and if you book ahead of time stay in this comfy lodge instead of in a tent on the ground.

After we got back to camp, all toasty at that point, we broke down the tent and packed up our stuff for the hike out. We paused again at Laughing Falls...

Tom had to clamber along this slippery log to get to and back from the rock in the above shot... that's my monkey man!

... more trail shots on the way out

This was the lookout at Lace Falls - Tom is strategically placed to block other people viewing the falls.

From there we stopped off at the Angel's Staircase Falls, although they weren't looking too impressive this early on a chilly day.

There was a brief glimpse of sun so we sat down on the river's edge for lunch. The sun soon disappeared though and the spot became a bit too cold to hang around long so we cut it short and hit the trail again...

Still no sun as we got back to Takkakaw Falls... but the car was warm!

The sun came out again and it warmed up on the drive back to Hwy 1... we stopped off at this lookout to see the Spiral Tunnel and finish our lunch in the sun.

It was impossible to see where the track and tunnel was at first but we were lucky enough to be there long enough for a train to come by so we could see it on two levels.

From here we just headed back to Calgary, got in around dinner time and picked up our pups from their fun weekend hanging out with our friends and their pup. Needless to say, excellent weekend! (especially since we did find the GPS at the end!)