TUESDAY 26TH – ICEFIELD PARKWAY

As anticipated, we spent today on the Icefield Parkway. In fact, we are still on it that we are camped in a delightful forest setting at Jason’s Creek about 60 klms south of Jasper.

The Icefield Parkway lived up to its reputation as one of the most scenic drives in the world in that the scenery was just stunning. In fact, I couldn’t choose the photo of the day so you are getting four. You choose. Most were taken at Bow Lake.

The highlight of the day was our adventure on Athabasca Glacier at the Columbia Icefield Centre. We got to ride on one of those oversized buses and walk on the glacier.

The photo below shows the scale of the glacier in that five of the monster buses are in the picture. The Columbia icefield from which the glacier flows is allegedly the largest icefield outside the Arctic or Antarctic Circles.

From the Columbia Icefield Centre, we also visited the Glacier Skywalk, a spectacular structure with a glass floor built out over the very deep valley 900 feet below with the obligatory glacier scenery to be admired.

Tomorrow we will check out the remaining scenic spots on the Parkway and Jasper and probably spend tomorrow night at Jasper.

We have booked ourselves a bear spotting eco tour at Pyna-tee-ah Eco Lodge from Friday to Monday. The Lodge is at a place called Likely near Williams Lake if you want to look that up. It appears to be in the middle of nowhere so should be fun. We will be heading for there on Thursday/Friday after Jasper.