I saw a lynx! This was the first Canadian Lynx I have ever seen in the wild. Naturally, coming around a bend in the trail and spotting a large brown cat was surprising. However, I was relieved that it wasn't a cougar. Lynx mostly hunt hares and not humans so I took some comfort in that. Even though Lake Louise area is important lynx habitat and there are over 10,000 of them in Canada, they are elusive creatures so spotting them is rare. This new friend of ours was making its way along the trail in the same direction that we needed to go so we ended up playing a little game of Red-Light Green-Light from a safe distance until it left the trail and we could get back to our car.