Day 10: Golden to Lake Louise- July 6.

After the big day yesterday, we were able to get back to our normal routine of eating breakfast at 6:30 am and departure from the camp at 7:00 am.   We were back on Highway 1 and had several more climbs out of Golden but the day was much easier than the previous two days.  

The bridge in the background spans a canyon and is 300 ft above the river at the bottom of the canyon.  It is amazing that a crew can engineer and build a bridge like this.  I'll admit that I was nervous biking over this and only glanced down a couple of times.  It was a long way to the bottom.

The views continue to be spectacular.

 The picture to the left shows another construction zone approaching.

We made it into Lake Louise by about 1:30 pm.  We were staying at the Lake Louise Campground.  After we settle into our our campsite we started to bike up to the chalet at Lake Louise.   When we started we had no idea the chalet was about 3 miles uphill.  Fortunately, Ed, our tour director came by with a fan with a bike carrier on the back.  Jerry, Rod, and I put our bikes on the rack and Ed drove us the rest of the way up the hill to the chalet.  It was very crowded but we enjoyed walking around this famous tourist site.

Because of so many bears coming to the campground, the entire campground is now surrounded with an electric fence.  We had to go through this gate to enter and exit the campground.  A few of the Sea to Sea riders saw a grizzly bear swim acrossed the river located near the campsite.