Our campsite was pretty much on the doorstep of the Icefields centre. We packed up and headed over for our 10 am glacier walk reservation with Brewster.
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| A massive Brewster glacier tour bus |
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| View from the top of the glacier |
The tour takes you up the glacier on these massive custom made buses. I was a little disappointed that the tour didn’t take us to the very top of the icefields, or guide us through any fissures or crevasses like the New Zealand tours do but we still had a great view from how high up we were.
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| Driving down from the icefields |
After the tour, it was off to Jasper for some lunch, free wifi and gas for the car. We settled in on a roof top patio at Jasper Pizza Place and shared a ham and mushroom pizza
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| Stoically pretending to be a beer drinker |
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| Walking around Jasper |
From Jasper, we slowly made our way back down the icefields parkway to highway 11 but this time stopping at many of the view points and shorter hikes.
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| Good Stretch after a long ride |
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| Navigator Bill on the job |
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| Valley of the Five Lakes |
One of the shorter hikes we picked was the 9b loop at Valley of the five Lakes
Plenty of good photo opportunities along the highway
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| Bill trying to get out of the matrix |
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| Athabasca Falls |
Athabasca falls and gorge was pretty crowded but it is a really nice waterfall.
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| Lots of stuff for Bill to climb in the gorge |
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| Mountain goats crossing the highway |
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| At Sunwapta Falls |
After four awesome days in the Rockies, we turned East on highway 11 out of the National Park through Rocky Mountain House to the little town of Rimbey Alberta. Our good friend Will Ogden is stationed in town as an RCPM officer and offered to let us stay with him for a few nights.
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