Holiday Inn Hinton, Ab

... access to the Willmore Wilderness. We launched the kayaks and quickly found that we could paddle up Rock Creek for a quick bath in the cold water. The next day we actually paddled through the Willmore Wilderness into Jasper National Park, using the same creek, by lining our kayaks up about four sets of rapids. I assume we are likely one of the first to ever enter Jasper National Park in this fashion (not even a park sign to ...

The drive from Hope, BC to Gregg Lake was gorgeous. We took the Coquihalla Highway (Yellowhead 5) that went right through Jasper. Stayed there for dinner before arriving at the William A. Switzer Provincial Park. <br><br>We got there just in time. The office was just about to close. We got to our site and set up. The sites were quite a bit closer and more open than in BC but ...

Spent the night here so that we would drive thru Jasper and Banff National Parks in the day. Sun was out and the vistas were once again spectacular. Took a hike up to the icefields in Jasper and stopped in Banff for a coffee break. Will have to return to go skiing sometime......

Day 71 Jasper Alberta Canada We had a bit of a sleep in (8am yeah right!) and then headed to Jasper. We had a wander around this tourist town, browsing the shops. Then headed off to get a tram (cable car/gondola)ride to the top of whistler mountain overlooking the Jasper area and the area surrounding. This trip up the mountain did not eventuate, the cable ride was shut down because of the weather, the electricity in the air was too dangerous for it to operate. We ...

... another two hours of driving to our destination in Hinton, Alberta which is an hour outside the parks and down the mountain. Again, this part of the drive was still awesome. Hinton, however, was just an OK city. We stayed at the KOA which is located in a large farm area a few miles outside Hinton. The town is built on the forestry industry with a few pulp mills in the area. It is very dusty here. During this trip, I am using a TomTom GPS device. It had done ...

... of our (guided) icewalk had to be a bit short because there's still a lot of snow on the glacier which makes certain parts treacherous. still, it was quite amazing (and my second glacier!). the prospect of spending 4 or five days hiking/skiing and camping on the glacier sounded great. after the glacier we drove back through jasper to maligne lake. on the way there was saw caribou and on the way back we saw a moose. we hiked a bit ...

... you know what you are looking for! I did confuse them all by pointing out that there could be 2 of them in there!??? After getting lost a few times...we arrived in Mount Robson National park and found a campsite...the sites are cool...turn up...pick your spot and pay only $15 when they come round later. Built a fire with all our left over wood...ate wierd chicken soup. Does anyone else think that the ingriedients of potatoes...noodles and chicken and ...

... trip this one. the water is only about 8 hours old after melting from the galcier and is therefore only 4 degrees! But we took our time where possible and managed to make it down in one piece. K was not content with just paddling though and decided to take a dip about half way through some of the wilder rapids, you just can't stop this girl these days. I managed to persuade her to come back into the boat in case she went over the suniwapta falls a couple of km's ahead. Apparently the ...

... After a visit to the tourist info office, we headed for a walk around the Lost Lake loop with it's array of autumnally coloured trees - brilliant reds, yellows, oranges and greens. After a bit of searching around for some place to stay we settled for a superbly decorated B & B near the centre of town. We met Marie and Andy from Seattle/Goa/England in the B & B and chatted a while. We found out the Thai restaurant was having it's opening night of '50% discount ...

... Sheep were having lunch. This made me hungry so I headed back to camp. After a late lunch I headed over to the Miette Hot Springs. For $5.75 (including towel rental) I soaked my aching muscles in 40 degree water. The resort actually cools down the water for our use. The natural temperature of water leaving the spring is about 54 degrees. I'm not really sure where I'll end up tomorrow. All I know is that I'll take a few days to meander down to Vancouver.