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Jasper Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Jasper, Canada
Jasper
This is a top pick! ... but left us all standing in a queue until gone 14:00 - no explanation, no apology - really shit service from Greyhound Canada. Anyway, Jasper is really great. We really like it. The first night (Tuesday) was spent in the hostel, but once again they ...
The Icefield Parkway
This is a top pick! ... they are able to grip the rocky slopes with grace and ease. We also learn that a collaboration between Parks Canada and Montana State University, the Henry P. Kendall Foundation and other partners funded the construction of wildlife passages, crossings ...
Life at a Mountain Resort
This is a top pick! Sorry folks but no pics this time. Satellite connection is just way to frustrating for that type of thing. But just felt a need to ramble for a bit about life here at Sunwapta Falls Resort. Feel free to scan or skip altogether. New Friends So ...
Good Friends and Good Views
This is a top pick! Travelpod now has unlimited space for uploading pictures. So here are some from the past month or so. These are mostly from a little road trip we took to Golden and then around the resort and town. Not feeling much in a writing mood so I will let ...
Homesickness
This is a top pick! I am quite homesick at the moment. And how silly is that? When exactly four weeks today I will be heading to Calgary and jumping a plane to Toronto. But even though I am excited about my trip home (and our little side trip to Newfoundland) there is ...
MOUNTAINS AND MORE HOOK-UPS
This is a top pick! ... Rockies while in Dennis's semi-truck. Dramatically-far-off triangles sprung above the highway's rural horizon. We entered Jasper National Park, where the altitude slowly climbed up beside our road. Mountains abounded, al dwarfed by one ...
My new favourite place
This is a top pick! Photos are here In the past, when I have taken yoga classes I have been given a tip about relaxation. When things start to get out of control take yourself to your favourite place. For a long time this was lying in a hammock outside my beach ...
Wanderlust rears its head
This is a top pick! There has been a damp chill in the air for days. The clouds have been sitting low obscuring any view of the mountains. The days are filled with intermittent torrential downpours and brief clearing periods before the rains commence again. I have ...
Settling in again
This is a top pick! ... of the backcountry there. (When you see the pictures look for The Tracks pic to see where he was) Once we arrived in Jasper we instantly were stoked about our decision to spend the summer season there. But we didn't stay long this time around. ...
bears, Bears, BEARS!!!!
This is a top pick! This morning as we were driving to Mount Robson we saw a bear sitting on top of a concrete barrier next to the road. We quickly turned around and went back for a closer look. It turned out to be a mama bear and a cub. If you look closely you can make ...
Toot, toot, choof, choof - off we go!
This is a top pick! ... on Fridays they have chocolates! Amazing. Due to it's late departure from Vancouver, 'The Canadian' was an hour late leaving Jasper. It stretched for about 20 cars, including 3 diesels, 2 dining cars, an activities car and three lounge cars with ...
Mountain Climbing and Fantastic Eats
This is a top pick! The Desire to Climb After living in the mountains for months is was inevitable that the urge to climb something would eventually overwhelm us. Especially now that the chair lifts have stopped and we no longer have regular transportation to the ...
The Last Days
This is a top pick! The last days at Sunwapta passed in a blur of sad goodbyes and eager countdowns for our own day to leave. Each day we would awake and peak out the window to see if this was the night that the snow had actually accumulated on the resort. Thanksgiving ...
Oh deer! Can't bear any more!
This is a top pick! ... show it better - and look for the little specks which are the snowbuses on the track up to the turnaround point. Jasper is a small railway and winter sports town about three blocks long. There is a gondola to a mountain lookout, but ...
Bear, Bear off to the right
This is a top pick! Now at this point of the trip I am pretty used to everything. I am used to the person who feels it is his responsibility to be loud. I m used to the community feel and I am used to, too used to, the great service of the VIA Rail staff. But ...
Dinner and American Politics
This is a top pick! So everytime I have had a chance to eat at the dinning car I have been impressed by the meal. Tonight I was called back to the early reservation at the dinning car. There I had the Orzo Stuffed Portobello Caps meal. It was the vegetarian dish ...
Journey to Jasper
This is a top pick! ... Giant portions! All the locals from around come there so it was an nice taste of middle of nowhere Canadian life. The rain continued to dog us right the way through to Jasper. However, things started to look up as you will see from our next entry. ...
Rockies Camping & Bears In The Wild.
This is a top pick! ... but delivered bears in the wild as promised. Contact: River Safari, Blue River, BC phone 250-673-2309 www.riversafari.com Footnote: Mount Robson Provincial Park and Jasper National Park are UNESCO World Heritage Listed under Canadian Rocky Mountain ...
So far so good so what? - megadeth now that ...
This is a top pick! "So far, so good, so what?" - Megadeth Now that Labour Day has passed summer has unofficially ended in Canada. This brings me some joy as that, hopefully, means that there will be a lot less 65 year old people wearing Tillet hats driving ...
Realities of Mountain Life
This is a top pick! It is been a rough several weeks here at Sunwapta. I suppose it was about a month since a woman in Canmore was killed in a grizzly attack. It didn't really affect me directly but it was enough to shake me up and get me a little more anxious about being ...
Pictures
This is a top pick! First of all Happy Canada Day weekend to all the Canadians in the crowd. The long weekend is a mad house here in Jasper. Full of Albertans escaping the city and willing to pay over $200 a night for a room here in the park. We were overwhelmed by the ...
Cell phone scare and my first meal not paid for
This is a top pick! ... . As I walked through Jasper with Ben I was amazed by the snow covered peaks, which surrounded the small town of Jasper. We had just spent the last two hours going through the beginning of the Rookie mountains. The mountains just appeared out ...
Rock'n in the Rockies!
This is a top pick! ... which only escaped last night... I think you should stay in your car - we are professionals."... and then wait for the reaction! Jasper - 10 hours later.. "Have you got a reservation"? Ummm no, "Do you realise it is the long weekend?" Ummm - ...
Bears as far as the eye can see..
This is a top pick! I had done a few quick runs through Jasper before, and been to Banff so I hadnt thought too much about the Rockies before arriving. When we did arrive it was overcast and cold and we could see bits of snow around. We picked up the car and headed ...
It Was Mr. Green With The Candlestick In The Spa
This is a top pick! ... like Batman, the Jetsons and Inspector Gadget. Mom did some laundry and we headed out in the afternoon to explore some of Jasper. There is some cool old architecture at the train station and the visitor's center. We had dinner at home and then ...
It's a Moose, Not An Elk!
This is a top pick! More rain today, but not storms like yesterday. We started early and stopped at Bear Paw Bakery in Jasper for treats. I'd have liked to stay here longer. On the way up to Maligne Canyon, we saw a mother Moose with her baby eating beside the road. That ...
The Rockies
This is a top pick! ... 't see out of the window much to her dismay....I told her to fight her way to a window.....she is just too polite !! Jasper NP was celebrating it's centenary, at the hot springs they were offering bathing costumes from 100 years ago free of charge to ...
Good morning Jasper!
After a wonderfully restful night it's once again time for sustenance! It's a tuff life but our valiant adventurers are prepared to push ...
Train journey to Jasper
... , so we had just long enough to walk the length of the train half mile long to give you the above facts. Arrival at Jasper impressive compared with other unimpressive stops, the Sioux Indian lookout being one. We found the B & B's very reasonable and ...
Weather gave us a sunny day
It was cold in Jasper and we only had a few sunny spots. Anyway it was really worth going here even so we could not doing all the hikes we wanted to. It was time to test the heating system of Toro Amarillo. The good news is that it works. The bad news is ...