Athabasca Hotel Jasper

... al Maligne Canyon encara que no em venia de cami.<br><br>Els principals highlights de Jasper han estat tots els camins, llacs i rius que he recorregut parcialment (us recordo que aqui tot es molt gran), sense voler-me oblidar del Medicine Lake i un record pels Cult (Medicine train) i pels White Stripes (Girl you don't have faith in medicine).<br>Mencio apart pels Miette Hot Springs on he trepitjat alguna cosa mes que neu ja que em va nevar durant les ...

... it off which helped me to sleep for about 5 hours. The next morning was spent travelling through British Columbia on our way into Vancouver, which is very scenic. Areas of farmland interspersed between wilderness.<br><br>Our arrival into Vancouver was heralded with beautiful sunshine but all high hopes were soon dashed as we all then had to experience the carnage of Vancouver VIA Rail baggage handling. After waiting for at least an hour for our bags, when they did ...

So we left Kamloops and headed to Jasper - saw Mount Robson and the start of the rockies I think. We got to see the top of Mt Robson which apparently is really rare so that was lucky. However, we were a little unlucky that our lunch stop - miles away from anywhere was suffering a power outage so we had to make do with anything we could find in the gift shop - wasn't too bad really. So after lunch we hopped on board ...

... a euphoric splash against rocks. It was absolutely breath-taking. Slightly marred however, by the stench from the two toddlers who had very dirty nappies!!! Change your children's nappies!!! Walking through the compartment where this family were sleeping resulted in a stench of urine and poo! Change Your Children's Nappies!!!!!!! Maybe they couldn't afford a lot of nappies though.... (David: Obviously, they'd spent all their money travelling in the first class carriages then ...

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, even the drops of water had frozen into icecles overnight. We headed out into the wilderness, and we'd been on the road about 15 minutes, and next thing you know, we'd gone from an autumn season with a ...

... thanks to the manipulative Aussies we were with, one of me posed as a travel agent and got us a look around the top rooms, was amazing, Michael had insisted we got photos from the top of the hotel, the views were stunning, the top rooms had outdoor balcony's to take int he views. After stacks of photos, the weather was spot on, we headed back to the bus! The next stop was along the Icefields Parkway, one of the most scenic and subsequently famous stretches of ...

... track and got some good views of the lake before the clouds closed in and it started hailing and sleeting. The best views were not from the old fire watch lookout but from the hiking trail, so we were glad that we had taken the shorter, steeper route with the views, rather than the recommended fire-road, because we would have missed all the best views. Coming down I saw a big brown circular shape and thought "either that is a huge tree stump or a large animal". I saw ...

... piece of railway track in Canada to build. The grades were so steep and dangerous for trains in this area that Canadian Pacific Railway had to build a 13km looping line instead of blasting a 430m tunnel through the mountain to continue the railway. Our first black bear of the trip was encountered just before the Alberta border. It was having a great time eating dandelions. Some twits were out of their cars having a look and were a bit too close for my liking! Entering ...