Jasper Hostels - Reviews and Rates

We left Banff at 8am and stopped at the supermarket to get supplies for another picnic and then went north on the Icefields Parkway (a highway through the national parks). We went to Lake Lousie where Michael set us a challenge to get a photo of the lake from the highest room in the hotel nest to the lake and also to get a photo with a lepricorn...

Sunday 17th August Up early to get to Jasper for an 8.30 pick up from the whitewater rafting company - Rocky Mountain River Guides. Slightly alarmed when we all had to don wetsuits, crash helmets and life jackets! We were then driven 40 minutes from Jasper to the Sunwapta River. Sunwapta means "turbulent water" in the Cree indian language and it...

No running water! After a big hike to the glacier on columbia ice fields

Jasper is a two-bank town - and at 11.00am, one was closed. The other's ATM spat out my Visa card forcing me inside to withdraw cash. In true Canadian style, the bank staff were happy to see me and each teller had a bowl of mints on her counter. These were FREE for customers - no bank charges involved. And on Fridays they have chocolates! Amazin...

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 out and about, especially on my own. And naturally the fear caused my running to suffer (not t...

One of the good things about hopping off the bus is you get to have a lie-in rather than getting up early to catch it. Or at least that was the plan, but the HI Jasper put paid to that. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm fine with the lights being switched off when the "quiet time" starts at 11pm, but to switch them on again at 8am - that's just cruel...