We had a day mixed with cloud and smoke, so we were again forced to find some activities that don’t depend too much on clear skies. After breakfast, we headed back over the divide into Yoho National Park in British Columbia, and stopped at the Natural Bridge.

The Natural Bridge, on the Kicking Horse River, is a very unusual natural rock formation. What was once a waterfall, became a bridge when the softer rock layer eroded below the harder rock above, rerouting the waterfall through a hole in the rock.

Here’s Brian and I standing on the bridge.

After admiring the power forces of water at the Natural Bridge, we headed back down to the highway. Passing through Field, we could see that a train was just leaving for the east, so we thought we’d head over to the viewpoint at the lower spiral tunnels.

The train took a while to make it here, but it did arrive. Below is a video of the train passing through. It’s 12 minutes long, so you may need to skip through parts, but essentially you will see the same train in three different places, heading in different directions. It approaches from the left of the video toward the tunnel in the centre of the frame. The train then emerges from the higher tunnel exit on the left side of the screen, before turning back down the valley (while continuing to move upward) which you see at the bottom of the frame.

Getting back to Lake Louise, we had reservations for dinner at the Station Restaurant, which is another of our frequent dinner spots. The restaurant is in the old historic CPR trains station in the Lake Louise village (then called Laggan when the station was first built).

After dinner, we returned to the hotel to relax.