Jasper Resorts - Reviews and Rates

I will give you some more information about yesterday. It is really hard to remember everything, so I made notes. It was a long uphill climb of 8% grade for a long way between Banff and Jasper, but we made our way slowly. The other beautiful color that I wanted to tell you about was the white color of the Aspen tree bark intermingled with the gr...

We got up early, we needed to be ready to be off by about 08:15. We grabbed our bags and headed out, breathing the fresh chill of the morning air, remembering we are around 4000ft above sea level in the town!! Our group was joined by 3 Australian girls, good laugh, bit loud, as well as a Canadian lass, Ashley! We were off, we stopped at Safeway ...

Shortly after the previous entry, the weather cleared up and the sky turned clear. I was drifting off to sleep, when I heard someone call me. It was Dean and Chris. Apparently Dean had locked his keys inside his car. Dean and Chris were convinced that they could open the car with a wire coathanger, so we piled into my car and headed into town an...

We have heard so much 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 the turbulent Fraser River, swimming upstream against numerous rapids to r...

Friday August 26, 2005 After packing up camp, hit the road towards the Town of Jasper soaking up the sights along the way. Once there we hit the first coffee shop for breakfast and a "real" coffee and then browsed through the gear shops and picked up a few groceries for the road. From here we drove to Athabasca Falls for some tourist sights. The...

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 become anxious to travel once again. I spend my free time pouring over guide books and surfing travel ...