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Bow Summit Lookout, Banff National Park

9/28/2016

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Continuing on after the doodle dog fiasco, we headed for the Bow Summit Lookout trail. 

Except I wouldn’t really call it a trail, considering the small path I’d just come from. This one was more like a road. And you’ll see it in the top corner of a picture or two, it looks like an old farm road! 

But we’ll take it, without complaints. Welcome it, in fact. 
A trail cutting through a pine forest with mountains a clouds in the distance at Bow Summit Lookout Trail, Banff National Park
The trail starts to climb upward, as the term Summit in the name would imply. I’m looking forward to getting my heart pumping from something other than a crazy deranged mountain-goat-dog.  Cool Whip, however, is having none of this. 

Work hard?! ‘Scuse me?! Um, no mom. Princesses do not work hard. 
A hiker with two dogs along a rocky glacial stream in a meadow surrounded by pine trees and cloud covered mountains at Bow Summit Lookout Trail, Banff National Park
​This uphill nonsense was definitely not her jam. She stopped walking. Yup, the standard unmovable Cool Whip stance: legs stiff, chin jutted out, eyes daring me to try to move her. 

Woman! I swear…! I had to coax her, plead with her, offer her snacks… 
A hiker with two dogs along a rocky glacial stream in a meadow surrounded by pine trees and cloud covered mountains at Bow Summit Lookout Trail, Banff National Park
It took us much longer than it should have, but we made it up. We ran into a few other hikers along the way and traded stories – where we were from, what else was in our plans, etc. One group even recognized us from the day before. Mostly because CW and Herc were the first “real” dogs they’d seen so far, meaning all other dogs were of the dainty fluffy ankle-biter sort. My chest puffed up a little and I gave the hounds a proud mama look. 
A brow pit bull dog in a green harness overlooking  a rocky glacial stream in a meadow surrounded by pine trees and cloud covered mountains at Bow Summit Lookout Trail, Banff National Park
Bow Summit Lookout, a view from a bare mountain side looking toward Bow Lake surrounded by mountains in Banff National Park
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