Jumpin' 'round Jasper
After Kootenay NP, we moved to the east side of the Rockies, camping in the Bow valley east of Banff and we picked up our Connor from Calgary and supplies in artsy Canmore. Our travels then took us ~300 kilometer further north to Jasper NP near it's east entrance. The drive took us along the fabulous Icefields Parkway, worthy of its own post.
We jumped around the north end of the park, looking for wet weather friendly hikes. We did geta pretty nice day when we did the Edith Cavell Glacier over look hike, thought the higher meadows were closed due to snow. Apparently we are early in the season in a snowy and wet year. Pretty cool glacier diving down into a teal green glacial tarn.
The valley's are broad and flat in these glacially carved valleys, with snow and glacier fed rivers ribboning through plains, oft constricted like at Athabasca Falls, and the deeply carved Maligne Canyon.
One of the wet weather friendly hike was the Valley of Five Lakes.
Like all of the Canadian peaks, the mountains around Jasper are incredibly tall and steep, some appearing to be single slabs of stone tilted at impossible angles, stretching into the clouds.
But the best was the wildlife. Saw several bears, lots of bighorn, a herd of mountain goats, and a smattering of deer and elk.
The most majestic were the woodland caribou we saw grazing. Absolutely magnificent.
We jumped around the north end of the park, looking for wet weather friendly hikes. We did geta pretty nice day when we did the Edith Cavell Glacier over look hike, thought the higher meadows were closed due to snow. Apparently we are early in the season in a snowy and wet year. Pretty cool glacier diving down into a teal green glacial tarn.
The valley's are broad and flat in these glacially carved valleys, with snow and glacier fed rivers ribboning through plains, oft constricted like at Athabasca Falls, and the deeply carved Maligne Canyon.
One of the wet weather friendly hike was the Valley of Five Lakes.
Like all of the Canadian peaks, the mountains around Jasper are incredibly tall and steep, some appearing to be single slabs of stone tilted at impossible angles, stretching into the clouds.
But the best was the wildlife. Saw several bears, lots of bighorn, a herd of mountain goats, and a smattering of deer and elk.
The most majestic were the woodland caribou we saw grazing. Absolutely magnificent.
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