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Jasper
Travel Blogs from Jasper, Canada
Icefield Parkway
We break up camp and drive down the Icefields Parkway. The road is very windy and steep. The mountain and glaciers around us are incredible! We stop for a lunch break while on the Icefields, after a quick picture we notice that one of the tires on the ...
Jasper first time round
... was still busy, whereas Banff had more available accommodation. So we decided to go to Banff for 10 days before heading back to Jasper. I was sure Banff was going to be nice, but neither of us wanted to leave Jasper. That first night was beautiful and ...
"I am HUMAN, you are a BEAR"
... - looked more like an MTV pool party), it was time to say goodbye to Banff and hello to Japser. ---------------------- Jasper = trains + wildlife + more mountains (yawn). This also means Giles taking 1 zillion photos while Nikki stands and sulks. ...
Kick The Toilet First
... back early I’d been able to ask John about where was best to learn to ski, he said Banff was better than Jasper, something I probably wouldn’t have bothered asking if I wasn’t in the van at that time, which could have meant spending a ...
Jasper
... or hypothermia has claimed you ! Now this is real life without the Health and Safety matrons around !! On then to Jasper as the mountains slowly reduced in stature and increasing forests spread across the area. A quick stop at the impressive ...
Jasper, Alberta
... so we were able to leap from side to side to see everything. Also saw more bears and deer, plus elk, caribou and groundhogs. Jasper is magical. A little town in the centre of the most picturesque mountains I've ever seen. The view from our hotel room ...
Alberta
Incredible scenery in Jasper but watch out for the bears! Take a ride out onto the Glacier, its freezing cold and windy but well worth the ...
From Whistler to Jasper
... watch some powerfull waterfalls and think about a girl who had fallen in and her body never recovered…. Spend the night at a rest area right on the border of British Colombia and Alberta and just before the entry to Jasper National Park, very ...
Canadian Rockies
... about the Canadian Rockies, but what captivated us more were the salmons of Adams River, a stop we made enroute to Jasper. Every 4 years, about 15 million salmons return home to British Columbia after roaming the broad Pacific Ocean. They will battle ...
Athabasca Falls
After spending the night at the Pine Bungalows in a little cabin...un-air conditioned...and it was hot...in the 90's...and it did not cool down until about 11 PM...and by morning it was cold in the cabin. We had a fireplace, which I guess we could have ...
Jasper - Tag 3/4 (provisorischer Titel)
Stichworte: - heeeeeeeeerlich: lange ausgeschlafen bis ca. 10h (liebe Gruesse an alle daheimgebliebenen Broetchenverdiener) - nachtsueber arktische Klimaverhaeltnisse im Van, darum Wolldecke aufgelegt (auch wieder so eine wahnsinnig spannende ...
Dogsledding
... on the way back. But it was an amazing experience; once again the scenery was beautiful. Back on the bus and heading to Jasper the road had disappeared beneath the snow, and it had turned quite nasty and dark. At 9.30pm it's still snowing, so it ...
Meeting the locals in Jasper
... melting. It's pretty slippery even with a little snow over it. Our last stop of the day was Maligne Canyon just outside of Jasper about 5pm. This was another gorgeous walk and then on the way into Jasper we saw our first Elk. Jasper is at a ...
Jasper - Tag 1/4 (provisorischer Titel)
... - Hirschkuh mit Selbstmordabsichten springt ca. 10m vor meinem Van quer ueber den Highway (muesche magge ufpasse, mannaggia!) - Ankunft in Jasper (dachte schon, ich schaff's nicht mehr) - Panne: fast kein Bargeld mehr, und die ATMs (Bankomaten) wollen ...
The Great Outdoors...Jasper
Woke up this morning (albeit an hour late as we had forgotten to change our clocks), in Camp Wapiti, Jasper National Park, and found that Jack Frost had paid a visit, BIG TIME. There was a layer of ice completely covering our campervan, ...
Day out in Jasper
... last shuttle bus back to the hostel and I relaxed for the rest of the evening. I met a girl from Edmonton called Magda who was in Jasper for the weekend. She has also just finished a psychology degree so we were chatting for a long time about all ...
Jasper National Park
... if I were traveling by row boat I'd rather go to London than Alaska. POUTINE Highway 16 from Prince George, BC to Jasper, Alberta is a very nice 2-lane road with 70 mph sweeping turns and gorgeous landscape ranging from rolling farmland to jagged mountain ...
Toward Alaska via Banff and Jasper
... to get back on the highway to Lake Louise. The following day we headed out to drive the Icefields Parkway through to Jasper. We were thrilled to unexpectedly run into our former WWOOF partner Steve, hitchhiking along the same highway, so we picked ...
Jasper Rocks in the mountains!
Jasper is located in a beautiful national park. I just don't want to leave Canada; I'm in love with this place. Made the perfect choice of place to stay. Astoria is the center of action with its pub next door, downstairs. Last night was St Patrick's ...
The Animals I've known!
Rob We are now in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada after driving 3,500klm from Alaska. Fir trees and more bloody fir trees, with the occasional piece of superb scenery thrown in. The boreal forests of the north are massive but only has four species ...
Banff & Jasper National Parks
... National Parks located within the Canadian Rockies. Our travels took us from the city of Golden along Highway 1 ( the Trans-Canada highway ) into the Lake Louise section of Banff. We spent a very enjoyable three days at a campground within ...
Day 31 - Jasper NP
... by reminding them of the unit change in Canada. The trip ended up being much shorter than expected. When we arrived at Jasper dinner crew immediately started dinner preparations. While dinner was cooking, the remaining fourteen of us decided to play a ...
Playing in the snow
... our defense, it was a long way away and, for a change, the train was travelling at its top speed (a dizzying 50 mph). Nearing Jasper, the snow started to fall like it really meant it and the trees were soon showing that "ready to drop this load of snow ...
Whistlers Mountain
... and I had a cup of tea whilst we looked down the mountain. It was a very clear day so we could see really far and could see Jasper town which is sort of shaped like a J. You could also see the train track which had a fraight train on that went on for ...
Jasper & the Icefields Parkway
... Inca Trail but still have time to get fit). Alanna motored through it easily as usual. We decided to head to the Fairmont Jasper Lodge to have a look. This place is in a great location with magnificent views. We decided we had earnt one of there ...
Tree dodging or not quite...!
I'm having a great time in Jasper; it's a very small town but has a lot of character to it and the ski-hill is great - lots of tree runs; a very cool terrain park and it's generally pretty quiet. The snow boarding is coming along slowly... still ...
Leaving Jasper
... . Can't say the same for the aches and pains though, we are definitely feeling a bit stiff this morning! We walked into Jasper for breakfast, to help loosen the joints. We are back on the Canadian this afternoon, heading for Vancouver, where we ...
The Skeena
... up for our trip on the Skeena Railway. The Skeena travels 720 miles between the Rockies and the north Pacific coast, from Jasper to Prince Rupert. Today we were only going as far as Dunster, around 85 miles, where we were picked up and returned ...