Parking and Lots

The people at Lake Louise allowed the fence running along one edge of a parking lot to fall pretty far into disrepair. It rather surprised me. Such a pristine place looked like this.

Then, of course, I start thinking of excuses reasons for it to be this way. First, it might have been the result of an awful lot of people driving into the fence. No money for repairs? So many repairs they can’t keep up? The lot was too obscure so management didn’t know? Overlapping jurisdictions between the owners of the hotel and the park?

Then I came up with a great one. Frost heaves! After all, the nearest glacier was clearly in view. I’ll bet they have impressive Winters. Surely that was the cause.

I had no way of verifying why the fence was in disrepair. I can only guess.