At 2.7 km we came to Mirror Lake
Nice trail though even though there was 1205’
rise. We ran into Mark and Lisa from
Connecticut and walked with them for quite awhile. 
Lake Agnes is a deep emerald color-but without the sun it's hard to tell. 
We ran into this dipper (bird on the rock) as we were heading to the teahouse.
We stopped at the teahouse and had hot
chocolate and strawberry-kiwi
tea with biscuits and apple-peach crumble.
The walk to the Bathroom was almost as steep
as the trail! But, fortunately, it was
on the way for Little Beehive. It climbs
through alpine fir and larch forest and across avalanche slopes. The larches were just beginning to get a
yellow tinge to them. 
The 2225m summit Little
Beehive has great views of Lake Louise (swimming pool blue) and Mirror Lake (deep
emerald) 
as well as surrounding peaks and the Bow River Valley. 
Enjoyed those and then headed back down the trail to the teahouse and then around the lake and up (and I do mean up) to the Big Beehive – 2255m.
Saw a cute dark
brown weasel on the rocks as well as a pika, a
chippy and a Clark’s
Nutcracker as we crossed over the rock slide.
The first of many switchbacks up the mountain! 
See all those switchbacks behind us :-)
Getting closer
Lake Agnes from the trail
Again..Agnes...smaller this time...we're there!
Nice views, but not as nice
as Little Beehive and the clouds had moved down over the mountain tops. It started to rain as we started down and
continued to lightly rain all the way down—glad we were in the forest. Got down and were cold so stopped to the
Saloon at the Chateau and had hot cider, hot chocolate and a beer. Decided we were hungry so ordered the Nachos and
it came in a 10” skillet full so that ended up being dinner! Came
home and there was a guy from Quebec next door and Dad offered him some fire starters
since the wood was all wet, and he invited us to share his fire later so we
took him up on it and introduced him to somores—he’d never had one. He owns his own small helicopter repair company
and was heading to Vancouver for an extended contract with a company
there. Very nice guy and a very warm
fire on a chilly night! Off to
bed—Gretchen tried the emergency blanket to see if that would keep her
warmer. Good day despite the chill!
