1/25/2009

Comfortable and on the new side, this is a nice lodge in a spectacular setting. Located in the Valley of the Ten Peaks, Moraine lake is one of the most scenic lakes in the world. I suppose that it would be too much to ask that it was still a secret to the extent that it was when my parents honeymooned here. Then they were the only people there in the campground and the "bathroom" was a bush. There are now literally thousands of tourists a day here, and it has started to get the feel of Lake Louise, where I never even bother going anymore. One of the main trails, heading to Sentinal pass and over into Paradise Valley has so much traffic now that the first part of it (a couple km maybe?) is paved. Paved, as in covered in cement! The lodge doesnt have the character the cabins that preceded it did, and the throngs of tourists it facilitates are loving this place to death. It used to be that every trail and campsite in the Canadian Rockies was immaculate. Now, some of them look like garbage dumps.

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