Athabasca Falls Jasper

We were kept up most of the night by the cooing of the elks. I looked out my tent around 3am only to find them stood about a meter away no wonder they were loud. There were two females and a baby. Needless to say the zip on my tent got done up quickly and even though I was desperate for the toilet I decided it was best to wait.

When we …

Wir hatten uns an diesem Tag den Pyramid Lake und einen der Gletscher vorgenommen.
Als wir dann voll ausgerüstet am Pyramidlake angekommen sind und die Wanderung gestartet hatten, hat ein Autofahrer am Wegesrand gehalten und laut "Bear ahead" gerufen. Wir haben dann sehr spontan entschieden die Wanderung abzubrechen und einfach gehofft dass …

We left the lovely city of Vancouver to drive ~430km to Kamloops. We expected a sleepy little town, but Kamloops has a population ~100,000, and we're still not sure what the attraction or main industry is there. It's like a city built on the moon - the landscape is very different from closer to Vancouver and beyond Kamloops. There's quite a nice …

We had a buffet breakfast in the lodge before making one of our longer journeys from Lake Louise to Jasper. We decided to make a day off it and stopped off at many places along the way taking plenty of pictures. So far we had had fantastic weather but when we stopped for lunch it absolutely poured it down, fortunately the sun came out again just …

After being dragged out of bed only to find out that the Soni's were still fast asleep, we decided to embark on a journey of our own to Lake Louise. A close drive from where we're staying, it was absolutely majestic. We even saw people canoe racing in the lake. Now that's definitely something that we're looking to do in the coming days! We took a …

So, wir verliessen Jasper mit Ziel Lake Louis auf dem Icefield Parkway; eine der Traumstrassen der Welt. Dies kann ich wirklich bestätigen. Den ganzen Weg sieht man einen Berg nach dem anderen und dazwischen Gletscher. Das Panorama ist unglaublich. Zuvor aber sahen wir uns noch die Atabasca Falls an. Inzwischen haben wir schon einige Wasserfälle …

... a warm afternoon you could hear the glacier shifting and see rocks falling where the ice was melting rapidly. I then headed down to Athabasca Falls which was very pretty as well. The town of Jasper is a bit more restrained than Banff. It's still very ...

... four days and drove down the Parkway 93 that runs between Jasper and Banff, stopping and viewing all these highly recommended places:- Athabasca Falls, Sunwapta Falls, Columbian Ice Field - you can walk to the base of the Glacier or pay to go on the ice ...

... in to an irritable 12 year old child after 3 1/2 hours of being a passenger so Whitt stopped us at Athabasca falls. Very impressive falls where the top looked like a kind of tropical beach and the falls themselves "swirled" like an enormous plug ...

... . After the glacier walk, we continued northwest on the parkway.  We stopped at Sunwapta Falls and the impressive Athabasca Falls.  By the time we arrived at Whistler's Campground near Jasper Townsite, it was almost 7 pm.  There were no ...

Today we drove to Athabasca falls where in winter the falls are frozen, however today we viewed millions of litres of water rush through a small chasm crashing onto the rocks below. To be continued in the next ...

... see, so, with time to spare, some were visited today to allow more time for others on the morrow.  These included Athabasca Falls, Horseshoe Lake, and Sumwapta Falls, all best described by the photographs.  But the whole drive along Route 93 is ...

... longer than expected. Taking in stops at Bow River (Tim's favourite view so far),     Sunwapta falls , Waterfowl lake, Athabasca falls , we also took an hour out to walk on the Athabasca glacier at the Columbus ...

... was really cool!  Not cold, even though we were standing on ice a thousand feet thick.  We also stopped at Athabasca Falls and Sunwapta Falls.  We saw more elk and bears, too.   On Monday, we hiked around Lake Annette and had a ...

... browsed through the gear shops and picked up a few groceries for the road. From here we drove to Athabasca Falls for some tourist sights. The falls were truly impressive! The crowd that was running in the opposite ...

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