Route: the substantial Lake Louise car parks being full, leaving the car on the roadside descending the hill, to backtrack to find the Saddleback trail exiting the car park and then taking this, switchbacking first through forest, across old avalanche fields and rising to a saddle. After lunch, taking a rough path through scree to reach the ridge and thence to the summit. Back the same way.
Conditions: sunny to begin and then cloudy but, against the forecast, remaining dry.
Pub: perhaps mistakenly, the Lake Louise youth hostel (which had run out of cask beer and nice bottles) for Big Rock cider.
