Yahoo in Yoho NP
Tuesday July 9
Got over to Yoho National Park today after a failed attempt at Lake Louise. (3 hour wait for shuttles!). Our plan B was to see if we could hike Takkakaw (aptly means wonderful, or magnificent in Cree) Falls and a few others.
We did make it up the road through some of the tightest paved switch backs I have seen. These required longer RVs (which there were 3 just ahead of us) to BACK UP the steepest,m of the 3 sections . Quite entertaining I must say.
Takkakaw Falls are among the tallest in Canada stretching 250 magnificent meters from a hanging valley to the valley floor.
Leaving most of the fellow gawkers behind as we hiked out the backpackers trail up the Yoho Valley to more falls. First stop was Angels Staircase Falls across Yoho River.
Lovely serene place to stop and have lunch, listening to the milky white river whirling by.
The next water feature is the Point Lace Falls on our side of the river, though decide to push on to our destination, Laughing Falls, which is a great name. We hear the laughter long be fore we see it. Evidence of the Laughing water is manifest in the river as the clear Laughing water flows apart from the milky glacial water flowing down valley from the Yoho Glacier at the valleys head.
As we approach the falls, its deep booming laugh fills out to a white roar, billowing out clouds of spray and mist to one side, wetting a broad swath of the forest across the Creek.
Our journey has reached it's terminus point, and we head back the dappled forest trail, catching the point Lace falls on our return sonjourn.
Got over to Yoho National Park today after a failed attempt at Lake Louise. (3 hour wait for shuttles!). Our plan B was to see if we could hike Takkakaw (aptly means wonderful, or magnificent in Cree) Falls and a few others.
We did make it up the road through some of the tightest paved switch backs I have seen. These required longer RVs (which there were 3 just ahead of us) to BACK UP the steepest,m of the 3 sections . Quite entertaining I must say.
Takkakaw Falls are among the tallest in Canada stretching 250 magnificent meters from a hanging valley to the valley floor.
Leaving most of the fellow gawkers behind as we hiked out the backpackers trail up the Yoho Valley to more falls. First stop was Angels Staircase Falls across Yoho River.
Lovely serene place to stop and have lunch, listening to the milky white river whirling by.
The next water feature is the Point Lace Falls on our side of the river, though decide to push on to our destination, Laughing Falls, which is a great name. We hear the laughter long be fore we see it. Evidence of the Laughing water is manifest in the river as the clear Laughing water flows apart from the milky glacial water flowing down valley from the Yoho Glacier at the valleys head.
As we approach the falls, its deep booming laugh fills out to a white roar, billowing out clouds of spray and mist to one side, wetting a broad swath of the forest across the Creek.
Our journey has reached it's terminus point, and we head back the dappled forest trail, catching the point Lace falls on our return sonjourn.
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