Just drove up there this past weekend. Unless you have a handi placard you can't drive right up to the lake, if you're lucky you can get parking in the overflow just a little bit before the turn of to Moraine Lake and hike the rest of the way. Very gorgeous and Lake Louise which isa short drive further up the road is also equally beautiful.
omnibelt
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Take a look at the Wikipedia page. It really is innocuous, it actually originated as a form of measurement like feet.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thumb
The top comment is using false etymology that was propagated in the 1970s.
I respect your intuition to drop problematic phrases but you may have been lead astray on "rule of thumb" by a very common rumour that that is where it originated.
In fact no law ever existed and it was more used in trades as thumbs were an easy mode of measurement available to anyone (similar to the use of feet to measure!)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thumb
The Wikipedia article even explains the "switch" rumour and provides some backstory and explanation to it.
So don't feel weird using Rule of Thumb it has more to do with carpentry than anything else.
That's a easy statement to make with a full belly and no worries about where your next meal is going to come from.