We were clearly entering dangerous territory...
View over Upper Waterton Lake at Dusk
Our first hike took us to the top of "Bears Hump"
View from Bear's Hump over the town and lake
After hiking the Bears Hump in the morning, we then did Bertha Lake in the afternoon, but all of this was to be just the "warm up" for the next day..
Making a snowball at Bertha Lake in July!!
The "Crypt" hike which we did on the second day, is apparently rated as Canada's #1 hike, and takes 6 hours to complete! There is a risk that you can encounter both black bears and even grizzlies! Apparently grizzlies can be more aggressive, but when you have not seen either before it's not easy to tell the difference, and they don't make it easy for you! We thought that grizzlies were brown, black bears (logically) black! But apparently, black bears can be brown too! What you have to look out for is that the grizzly has very small ears, the black bear very large ones and when they walk, the hind legs of the back bear will be it's highest point, whereas the grizzly has a hump on its back which is its highest point! Either way we were armed with pepper spray and our secret weapon..... Svan's singing!
To get to the "Crypt" involved a short trip on the speed boat, which added to the sense of going somewhere not usually accessible...
The first cool thing we came to was a beautiful waterfall
Then to get to the lake we had to go through an amazing cave..although standing up proved challenging..
This was the view that we trekked nearly 3 hours to get to see..
This was the spot we ate a well deserved packed lunch at before making the journey back to catch the boat at 4pm..
On the way back..
We made it!
As we took the waterfront detour (which added 20 minutes) on the way back, we had to get our skates on to make it for 4pm, although we found that by breaking into a jog we could just about out run the mosquitos! What a great day though!
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