Blogs from Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada, North America - page 8

We started out in beautiful weather and it continued until we had finished all of our sightseeing. We drove to Jasper, Alberta in Jasper NP. It was pretty going into Jasper and from there south it is nothing short of spectacular. The pictures just do NOT do it justice. This was the most incredible day of our trip. Every turn brought more jagged peaks, with snow and glaciers - - it was kind of like Glacier NP only about 160 miles long. We saw a grizzly bear, some loons, a couple deer, and some rock sheep, and some big horn sheep. I’ll let the photos speak for themselves !!! I took 232 photos today, but will only show about a dozen. ... read more

(By Darryl) DAY 21: Monday 3rd May 2010 - TO JASPER (again!) Up, breakfast and packed the car in record time - leaving the motel at 10:30, to a sunny/cloudy morning The problem tyre was pretty flat again this morning so I eased the car down to the garage to pump it up and we all drove down to the Chrysler dealer to see about getting the puncture fixed and possibly a replacement spare wheel. Well they don’t have any rims that fit for a spare, and turns out the flat tyre is stuffed - with two big holes that have previously been badly patched. Another patch could result in a blowout and with no spare its not worth the risk. Canmore Chrysler don’t carry tyres so we have to wait around while they hunt down ... read more

Icefields Parkway and Columbia Icefields Friday Sept 18: The Icefields Parkway (Highway 93) runs north from Lake Louise to Jasper, and it's all within the territory of Banff National Park and Jasper National Park. It's a spectauclar drive! (230km/144mi.) Although I rode along part of it in 1970 with my 3 friends, Ellen, Marty and Kitty, just after we left college, I had no memory of its grandeur. I can only think it must have been a rainy, cloudy day so we couldn't see it, because it seems it would be impossible to forget this road otherwise. And I do recall it raining when we stood on the Columbia Icefields on that trip. National Geographic has called this “One of the World's Ten Greatest Drives”, and although I have no way of knowing how true this ... read more

Ok so it's another National Park but there was so much to see and do up here - rather than me ramble on about it I thought we should add a few more photos and videos than usual that tell the story a little better. So, first there was the icefield's parkway - one of the World's great drives up from Lake Louise (one of the seven natural wonders of the world - although I don't know how they work these things out - I've heard of there are hundreds of them) to Jasper. The weather was mixed but we soon forgot about that when we spied a bear demolishing berries on the side of the road - we did what all the guidelines expresly forbid you from doing and pulled over for a photography session ... read more

Het vertrek in Edmonton was des te gemakkelijker dan al de vorige vertrekken, we kijken enorm hard uit naar het zicht op de Rocky Mountains en de tijd die we er gaan vertoeven. Eens vertrokken vlotte het wel enorm hard. In het plaatsje Edson stopte we even voor een tankbuurt en het middageten, wat lekker was maar een heel slechte service. Zowel in de verenigde staten als Canada moet je de service bedanken door middel van het geven van fooien. Meestal hangt dit ergens tussen de 10% en 15% van het totale bedrag, maar vermits het zo slecht was kreeg de serveuse 0,0% Rond 14h30 kwamen we aan bij de KOA-camping. KOA is een grote organisatie die over heel de Verenigde Staten en Zuid-Canada verspreid is met verschillende campings. De faciliteiten zijn enorm proper en goed ... read more