“But What If Worse?” Gender Reveal at Lake Louise Answers Age-Old Question

Parks Canada is investigating after what appears to be a gender reveal party briefly turned Lake Louise into a blush-coloured cautionary tale about main-character syndrome.

A Reddit post from a California visitor described a wide smear of pink dye and hundreds of flecks of metallic tinsel scattered across the ice on Jan. 31, remnants she says she spent an hour cleaning up by hand. After checking archived Fairmont webcams, the poster believes a family set off confetti near the boathouse for about ten minutes, long enough to announce a baby’s gender, and briefly rebrand a national park as a party aisle at a dollar store.

“I don’t understand how a happy family moment becomes environmental vandalism,” she said, declining to be named or filmed, but clearly auditioning for sainthood.

Other visitors expressed confusion that anyone would look at pristine wilderness and think, you know what this needs? Pink debris.

Parks Canada says littering can result in fines up to $25,000, apparently the true cost of learning that the mountains did not consent to your reveal.

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