Icefields Parkway Banff National Park

Day 16: Ändlech isch ds Wätter wieder chli besser. Darum simer nomal zrügg übere Icefield Parkway bis zum Columbia Icefield Center gfahre. Vo dert us het d Orna ä Tour ufe Athabascar Gletscher gmacht u i ha im Restaurant gwartet. Mir ischs irgendwie nid drum gsi $ 55. – ds zahle für 20 Minute ufeme Gletscher ds sta. Ufem Wäg zum Center hei …

We needed to get an early start this morning as I wanted to be out at the the Icefields Centre 126 km away for the first tour to allow us to get back for our walk. The Icefields Parkway is another great drive. It runs from Banff to Jasper with some of the prettiest /wildest scenery you are likely to see. There truly is a postcard around every …

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 …

... a million Japanese people, could take a picture of the lake. If you can't get enough of stereotypical Japanese tourists, Banff National Park is your place. I then headed north along the Icefields Parkway to see all the sights. The beauty of this place ...

... this afternoon after spending the last two nights in Jasper. Over the last couple of days we have been exploring the Icefields Parkway. We have walked on the Athabasca Glacier, travelling onto it by snocoach. Awesome, cold, windy, slushy underfoot ...

... that the guide on the Ice Explorer was very cute!!!!! The actual road from Jasper to Lake Lousie is called the Icefields Parkway and is only open for cars and tourist buses.  Commercial trucks are forbidden.   The views of the ...

Saw a lot today. Here's a list: Maligne Canyon, Icefields Parkway, Mt Edith Cavell, Athabasca Falls, Mt Christie, Sunwapta Falls, the Columbia Glacier, Saskatchewan River, Howse Valley, Waterfowl Lake, Peyto Lake, Mosquito Creek, Lake Louise, Takakkaw ...

... ! I would return the following week, which would involve a degree of backtracking, but I wanted to travel along the famous Icefields Parkway a few times in case I happened to be unlucky with the weather... I met James, a lad from Sheffield, the next ...

... .  I may not be able to post again for a day or two. Tomorrow I'll be in a more primitive campground along the Icefields Parkway. I hope to find a spot at Wilcox Creek Campground since I want to hike part of the Wilcox Pass Trail.  All is well ...

Off we set along the Icefields Parkway one of the most scenic stretches of highway in the world. Glaciers, lakes, waterfalls and wildlife were abundant. The mountains here are the highest, most rugged and the most scenic in all the Rockies. COLUMBIA ...

... overigens tot het Werelderfgoed van de Unesco. We hebben een rondvlucht van 1 uur en 20 minuten gemaakt boven Jasper National Park, de Icefields Parkway en de Columbia Icefields. Ons pa en ma hadden nog nooit in een klein vliegtuigje gezeten en met name ...

... ). Whitt 'volunteered' to drive again and this time it was a 2 hour drive up to "Peyto Lake" in between Banff and Jasper on the Icefields Parkway (Route 93). Walked up a short hike to a viewpoint looking out over the lake where we got a couple of ...

... full to bursting with coffee maniacs. We then pursued their second piece of advice and set off on the scenic route to Banff National Park. The drive took us via Nakusp, which had an amazing, enourmous lake which we had to cross twice during the journey ...