I Took The Path Less Traveled By: Egypt Lake Banff National Park July 16-18, 2019

So after I returned from my winter trip to Egypt Lake, I decided to go again so I booked the Egypt Lake Hut for the summer. Well the time came to go and so we made this a family excursion. The trip had forecast for a little rain, and the little rain turned into a lot of rain and a little snow? Our hike in wasn't too wet, we got up to Healy Pass and had a great view down onto the Egypt Lake area, but didn't have a great view south because of cloud. The night we arrived we though we could make a run up the Sphinx without any problem and maybe get a summit sunset. Well the trail was a little harder than we though and we ran out of time and it was rainy and wet. So we returned and went to bed. The next day we tried again for the Sphinx and maybe thought we could get in the Sphinx and Pharaoh in. Well the rain made it so that we only did the Sphinx. The Summit view on the Sphinx was great except for the rain and being overcast. I wish it could have cleared off but it didn't. So the next morning we got up to fresh snow on the Healy Pass above us and so we cleaned up and headed out. The weather was ok till the pass then it was all down hill....literally. We got rained on the entire way out. Lets just say that is probably the wettest I have ever been hiking it even snowed a little. Well we got back to our vehicles and got warm and dry. Maybe I'll have to go back another time and bag Pharaoh Peak another time.