We departed Lake Louise on a gorgeous Sunday morning, and headed north on the Icefields Parkway towards Jasper National Park. When we traveled this highway 6 years ago, it was a blustery and miserable day.
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| A shot from the windshield |
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| Mistaya Canyon |
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| A shot from the dash cam |
This was the first bear we have seen on this trip, and one of three we saw this day. It's a terrible picture, taken from a moving vehicle, but hey, it's a bear. Trust me.
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| A black bear???? |
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| OK, this bear doesn't count |
We saw a number of mountain goats. They were way up on the cliffs, and you had to look hard to see them
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| How's he gonna get down from there? |
Along the Icefields Parkway our coach passed a major milestone. We bought this coach 10 years ago, when it was 2 years old and had only 9000 miles. We have kept on trucking'.
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| I could have taken this picture at exactly 100,000.0 miles, but I was still moving then, and Dorcas would have fussed |
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| Another bad picture of a black bear ..... I think |
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| The Icefield Centre |
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Dorcas has always liked large mammals in uniform.
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| One is real, the other is not. Can you guess which? |
The
Columbia Ice Field is the largest ice field in the North American Rockies.
Athabasca Glacier is one of the 6 principle glaciers in the Columbia Icefield and is the most visited glacier in North America.
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| Athabasca Glacier |
In this blow up from the photo above, you can see a tour bus and about a dozen ice buggies up on the glacier.
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| The elk are much better at posing than the bears |
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| You mean we were way down there? |
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| The Glacier Skywalk is actually level, the camera is tilted! |
To see us crossing the North Saskatchewan River click
here.
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| Cool waterfalls |
Google maps predicted it would take us over 7 hours to drive the 175 miles from Lake Louise to Jasper. We knew there was some construction along the route, but saw no specific slow-downs on Google maps. We did pass one construction zone that delayed us about 15 minutes. Click
here to see the dancing flagman.
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| Athabasca Pass, a major route for natives and traders |
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| Athabasca Falls |
Clock
here to see a video of Athabasca Falls.
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| The end |
3 comments:
That Icefields Parkway is one gorgeous drove. Glad you had good weather.
Beautiful country
Beautiful photos.......snow on the mountains but looks like the roads are dry and clear.........you had gorgeous weather. Make sure you use a telephoto on those bears!!!
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