Lake Moraine and the Valley of the Ten Peaks

Lake Moraine was one of the real highlights of the whole trip - the lake like most up in the high Rockies is fed by the summer run off from melting glaciers (hence the lovely emerald blue colourings!). Moraine lake is among the most beautiful however for its setting among a ring of 10 peaks that circle the lake like a horse shoe. Happily, one can climb up one of these peaks for the perfect panoramic view of the entire area. A couple of giggly near manic teenage girls from Toronto took this picture and really teenage style effusiveness was the only reasonable response to this kind of landscape.