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July 8 to 10, 2007



July 8, 2007


We are taking a break today.  We need it after all the busy days we had.
Big breakfast and a nice fire.  Good to be relaxing.


Rolland and me are off to Jasper with the bicycles.
Rolland wants to check out if anybody has old cars.  When he found out Jasper had alleys that was it.


I have to put a few photos of what he found just to prove we did find many...


He has a nose to find old cars.


Back at the campground, a herd of elk was going through the campground.
There must have been ten of them.


This break was welcome, it did us good.



July 9, 2007


Back in the saddle with touring.  Busy day today.
Our first stop is the Jasper Tramway.


The Tramway takes us up to 7,173 feet of elevation, the top of the mountain is 600 feet higher.


Very windy at the top of the mountain.  Very cool for temperature.
Here we can see the upper terminal for the tramway.  The mountain we are on is Mount Whistler.


Looking west.


And looking south.


The town of Jasper.


The four of us with Jasper as a background.  It is not very warm.


On our way back from the tramway, we spotted this young bear.


Direction, Mount Edith Cavell.


One of many small creeks we crossed in our travel.


Mount Edith Cavell.


Mount Edith Cavell, seen from the parking lot.


I have never seen a tree with its cones growing on top of the branches.


From the parking to the Mount Edith Cavell, a nice trail of 1.6 km return.  A beautiful place and well done.


Taking a break.


Another small creek with very cold water.


The Angel glacier.


At the base of the Angel glacier, you have another glacier and a lake
To give you an idea of the size of this place, try to find two persons in the photo?


With one of the "iceberg".


The small glacier is called the Ghost glacier.


Michèle and Suzie waiting for us as we are throwing rocks in the water, trying to break off some ice.


Ahhh!  Love...


Mount Franchère reflecting in Lake Cavell.


Campfire and a well-earned rest.


Rolland got some issues with his foot.


Note:  Rolland is only drinking beer to dull the pain...


Here is what he sees when the pain hits...


Another very busy day.



July 10, 2007


We are continuing our tour of the Jasper area.

A big elk resting in the shade.


Maligne canyon.


A narrow gorge at a dept of 150 feet.


So beautiful and to imagine the water took thousands of years to achieve that.


One tired tourist!


On our way to Maligne Lake, we drive by Medicine lake.  Medicine Lake is special.  In the winter it is empty, but in the spring, it fills up.  The reason for this is this lake has one of the biggest underground river system in North America.


Medicine Lake.


At Maligne Lake, we are going for the boat ride to Spirit Island.


In the boat...


Another tour boat.  The scenery is so beautiful.  During our travel to Sprite Island, the guide told us all kinds of information on the area around the lake.  Really good stuff.


The island you see in the photo below is Spirit Island.  The view was painted on the grand hall of Grand Station in New York for almost 20 years.  Much prettier in reality.


The same photo, but without the Island.  The first explorers called this view, "The Valley of The Giants".


After the cruise on the lake, we are off to Miette Hot Springs.
The mountain range in the center of the photo is the Ashlar Ridge.  It is very BIG.


Coming is the hot spring at 7:48 pm and still lots of daylight hours left.


The pools are at a very nice +40C.


I personally prefer Miette hot spring to Banff hot spring.
The main reason is this place is less crowded. The scenery is much prettier.


Oupppss!  Slightly out of order, but here are the photos on our way to Miette.


  

We are spending the night at Pocahontas campground.  I did not take any photos because the bugs were just too ferocious.
You needed a lot of bug juice to be outside.

What a day!

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