Monday, August 08, 2005

Jasper National Park

In Jasper we did a fantastic hike up the Bald Hills, it was pretty hardwork but worth it because as you cleared the tree line you got the most fantastic view of Maligne Lake and the surrounding mountains.


Unfortunatley once we reached the top cloud came over and there was a brief hail storm which stung our bare legs and we were forced to beat a retreat, but the hail quickly turned to rain and then sun and we were treated to a wonderful rainbow.

The next day was spent driving the Icelands Parkway to Lake Louise which gave Simon some wonderful views of the Rockies. We made several stops along the way including the amazing Athabasca Falls and Wildfowl lake which is meant to be a favourite hangout of moose, unfortunately the moose count remains at a big fat zero, but we had fun anyway and just as we arrived into Banff National Park we saw a baby black bear cub (its location given away by lots of other tourists stopped and gawping at it).

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