We
awoke to light snow this morning. The
views out of our window were magical, made even more so by the snow.
After breakfast we wandered around the lovely hotel a bit more and then caught our transfer that will take us through Jasper National Park with a few stops, before ending in the town of Jasper itself.
The
drive though the Canadian Rockies was magnificent and we recommend it to
everyone particularly those who like the mountains.
We had a short stop at Bow Lake where the snow was pretty heavy…
and
later a short stop to pick up sandwiches for lunch. We ate on the bus.
Then
it was on to a couple of main sights in Jasper National Park. The first stop was a Skywalk, a glass-floor
observation platform that juts out 280 meter (918 feet) above the Sunwapta
Valley below. The Skywalk itself was an
amazing engineering feat and is truly beautiful, blending well with the natural
terrain.
And
the views down the valley are spectacular.
We
could also see a concentration of waterfalls near the base of the valley.
We
then took a snow coach out to the Athabasca Glacier, a “toe” of the greater
Columbia Ice Field, the largest ice field in the Rockies, covering 125 square
miles.
Part of the snowy road to the glacier was exceedingly steep but the snow coaches were built for just such terrain.
The
snow coach took us pretty close to the front edge of the glacier...
where we all
had a chance to take pictures.
After
thawing out we were back on our small bus and headed off down the road. We had another stop, this time at the
Athabasca Falls. It was getting pretty
dark by then but the falls were lovely.
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More photos of the mountains
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We ended up in Jasper just about dinner time. It was pretty cold there so we didn’t want to walk around town for dinner so we ate at the hotel restaurant. Their menu was still celebrating Canadian Thanksgiving (sort of).
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