Always trying to pick up on a bit of information on local history, and wildlife, we realise that tourism between Banff and Jasper has increased rapidly in the last 10 years and that spotting a bear, moose, elk, cariboo, or deer is not as easy as a “tourist” may think. We have seen many squirrells and chipmunks around camp and on our hikes/walks. Still time to see some of the bigger stuff.
We left at 8am and drove the length of an amazing highway through the Banff and Jasper NPs called Icelands Parkway. We had rugged majestic mountains to the right and ranges of glacial snow topped mountains which made up various Icefields to the left. Along the way we saw a small group of Mountain Goats, and visited:
Bow Lake and Bow Glacier, so different and so unique ..... a hard one to beat.
Peyto Lake
Athabasca Glacier on the Columbia Icefields..... interesting and amazingly accessible, but receding 15 metres per year.
Todays Lunch Room photo
There are only 24 of these vehicles in the world, and 22 of them are here on the Glacier
Skywalk.....over rated, over crowded, but a marvellous feat of engineering
Athabasca Waterfall
We followed the Athabasca River into Jasper. Athabasca river flows 6,000 km to the Artic Ocean. After another very warm day and setting up camp at the NP campground named Whistler, we set out for a little cooling off at Pyramid Beach (lake), water too cold, Bert went in though, we tried a bit of elk spotting ... no luck.... dinner and an early night. We are not coping with the evening camp fire smoke. The atmosphere is great but hate smelling of smoke on our clothes in our tent.
Another cold night too, after Leah had said it would be warmer than Lake Louise.
Our tent spot was just behind Derek’s shoulder
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