In the late 1960s I was a graduate student at Tufts University. My dissertation advisor was a logician and a mountain climber, and while I was writing my dissertation he mentioned that he would be away for a few months as he had been chosen to be on a Mount Everest expedition. His expedition failed, as many do, but he came back many months later alive, for which I was grateful.
Having seen many of the world's best wilderness areas, I believed him when he said that Lake Oesa in the Canadian Rockies was the most beautiful mountain lake he had ever seen.
Based on that recommendation, my wife and I planned a three-week trip to the Canadian Rockies for the summer of 1977. Later I will post some images from our favorite park, Yoho National Park, which we returned to in 1987 (with our ten-year-old son) and again in 2004.
I will eventually post six sections to this thread: 1. Floe Lake backpack, 2. Lake Louise vicinity, 3. Wiwaxy Gap at Lake O'Hara, 4. Lake O'Hara in Yoho National Park, 5. Lakes Oesa and Mcarthur, and 6. Twin Falls Chalet in the Yoho Valley.