{"id":232,"date":"2006-10-14T19:11:20","date_gmt":"2006-10-14T17:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wobben.org\/general\/canada-2006\/icefields-parkway-jasper"},"modified":"2020-01-26T13:52:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T19:52:09","slug":"icefields-parkway-jasper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/other-destinations\/canada\/icefields-parkway-jasper\/","title":{"rendered":"Icefields Parkway, Jasper"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00bb photo albums<\/strong> 2006\/CANADA<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Finally a new update! We’ve seen so much that we have been too busy to catch up with the diary and sorting out pics \ud83d\ude09
\nFirst a few reactions to the reactions:<\/p>\n

@Mike: we were at Melissa’s the last time, great place! But this time we got fed such a wonderful hot breakfast at the B&B that we haven’t been there.<\/em><\/p>\n

@Tontje: we’ll drive through Moose Jaw when we get back to Calgary, but I don’t know if we’ll have time for such a tour. We’ll keep it in mind!<\/em><\/p>\n

@Henri, Sandy & Mattias: (belated) HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!<\/em><\/p>\n

@Casper: have a great vacation in Chili!! I feel so sorry for you that you have to do that… heh heh<\/em><\/p>\n

@Rik & Syl: my heart rate was OK, he was far away. Could see him very well through the zoom of the video camera \ud83d\ude42 Nico was affected by it more, but he’s OK again, he says \ud83d\ude09<\/em><\/p>\n

@Agnes & Colinda: I heard from others that they’ve seen a bear in that spot (whether or not that was the same bear, it must be a yummy grainy spot there en very visible with the open field in front of it. Oh and that interview in Regina is the 19th.<\/em><\/p>\n

Here we go with the diary:<\/p>\n

Wednesday, October 11th<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We finally slept through the night and I feel a lot better today. We took it slow today (tomorrow we have a gorgeous, but fairly long drive to Jasper), just walked through Banff in the beautiful chilly-but-sunny weather. We made some pics at the B&B (in and outside of the house and with the manager, Denise), walked towards the Bow River and did the Fenland Loop<\/strong> Trail <\/strong>near the Vermillion Lakes. Close to 4 we went to Canmore<\/strong> to visit Anneke and Gerard (and family) – we had a great time and a delicious meal, chatted about emigration of course and listened to all their enthusiastic stories. Thanks for the hospitality and good times guys! You are an inspiration \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Thursday, October 12th<\/strong><\/p>\n

With a heavy heart we had our last breakfast at the Rocky Mountain B&B and said goodbye to Denise. I will miss that place!! I also took a few pics of a deer that was just walking by the house when we left at 10am.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We took the Highway 1 to Lake Louise this time (instead of the more scenic 1a, the Bow Valley Parkway), and took the 93 from there, the famous Icefields Parkway<\/strong> to Jasper. This is called the most beautiful panorama road in the world. Now I haven’t been all over the world, but this road certainly is impressive. Lots of different landscapes between the mountain ranges, from forest, to meadows or stony parts in the higher regions. We made some stops (Bow Lake, Saskatchewan Crossing, Big Bend – yes Margret, we found your “hidden” falls near the parking lot! – Tangle Falls, Athabasca Valley viewpoint) and did a few short hikes to viewpoints (Peyto Lake, Mistaya Canyon) along the way. We skipped the falls close to Jasper, for we can do those in the upcoming days. We were scanning the woods and meadows for wildlife all the time, and once we saw a coyote walking on the opposite site of the road.\u00a0He was so close, what a beautiful animal! Even though I had the photo- and video camera on my lap the whole time, it disappeared too quickly \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

It was already 5.45pm when we finally arrived in Jasper<\/strong>, wow! Even with the stops I didn’t think we’d need almost 7 hours for the almost 300 km. We settled into the nice basement apartment (but with a big window and a bit of mountain view \ud83d\ude42 ) and walked to the centre of the town (about 10 minutes) to have some dinner. We ended up at the L&W restaurant for some chicken & ribs, and it was OK, but hey, no Tony Roma’s of course. We were tired from the trip and crashed around 10pm already!<\/p>\n

Friday, October 13th
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\n\"\"<\/a>The mountain air makes you sleepy I guess, we slept until close to 8am! When it comes to meals, we’re on our own here in Jasper and we really missed Denise’s breakfasts. After a while we went out to do the laundry at Coin Clean Laundry where we could also grab something to eat (just banana bread, scones etc. though), drink (latte) and use the internet. I didn’t post on the weblog, because I hadn’t had a chance to write all this down yet. It was again a beautiful day (most of the time we could walk around in our t-shirts), but the weather will probably change over the weekend. The Jasper Tramway up the Whistler Mountain unfortunately closed last weekend, instead we drove to the Marmot Basin for a few views (wasn’t too much, maybe we should’ve continued on the gravel road) and up the Mt. Edith Cavell<\/strong> over a long, winding road and hiked to the pond below the Angel Glacier<\/strong>. What a beautiful spot!!! It was already too cold (the pond was frozen and there were some icy patches on the path) to see and hear pieces of the glacier fall off.<\/p>\n

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Back in Jasper<\/strong> we went to eat in the very nearby Mount Robson Restaurant, which we liked a lot. Nothing too fancy, but we liked the atmosphere and the food (esp. for Erik: we had the special of the day with salad or soup for starters, a very big chunk of salmon filet, mixed vegetables and fries and ice cream for dessert \ud83d\ude42 ) I also had that great Big Rock Traditional Ale again that I also had at the first B&B, love that dark beer! We went back to our “home” and finally find time to chill, watch TV, write all this and organize the pics. Unfortunately we don’t have access to some unprotected network here, bummer! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Saturday, October 14th<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This morning we had some breakfast (eggs and stuff) at the Black Sheep Cafe and visited a wildlife fair in front of the Jasper Information Centre. We then drove to Patricia Lake<\/strong> and Pyramid Lake<\/strong>, two very peaceful lakes just north of Jasper. On our way up we finally saw the elk herd! They were lying between the trees just outside of town. At the Patricia Lake pullout we met Graham Flint of the gigapxl project<\/a>, who made pics with a 4000 megapixel camera :O Nico’s jaw dropped when Graham started to set up his stuff on the top of his four wheel drive, so he went over to talk to him and asked him some stuff with a big smile on his face \ud83d\ude09 Then we continued to Pyramid Lake where several water sports are possible and a bit further through there is a bridge to Pyramid Island with some great views.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow is Nico’s birthday, but I guess it’ll depend on the weather what we’re going to do. Forecasts say we might get some rain, it got a bit more overcast and colder (or should I say less warm) today. It will be our last day in the Rockies, Monday we’ll proceed to Edmonton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00bb photo albums 2006\/CANADA Finally a new update! We’ve seen so much that we have been too busy to catch up with the diary and sorting out pics \ud83d\ude09 First a few reactions to the reactions: @Mike: we were at Melissa’s the last time, great place! But this time we got fed such a wonderful hot breakfast at the B&B … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[903],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","tag-alberta-saskatchewan-2006","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7430,"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/7430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}