Drizzly morning for packing up

Clean car for the start of our trip

Jacqueline and Miles picked Asian Pears from the yard and made a crumble!

First day of school

Interesting cocktail choice…

Days Inn - meh

Columbia river and Mt. Begbie

Hemlock Grove Boardwalk

Some people rented this camper van inVancouver but had no idea who King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizards were…

Old pillars from abandoned railroad trestles

Charging at Rogers Pass Discovery Center

Stellar’s Jay that likes to hang out on our deck

View from our deck

Walk around the lake

Bridge to the lodge- a shuttle bus picks the guests up at a parking lot up the road and drives them over

Jay stopped by again

Jacqueline learning things at Yoho National Park visitor center

Town of Field, BC

Kicking Horse river

More red chairs - kind of a thing with Canadian National Parks

Jacqueline asksfor LOTS of selfie shots

Yoho Glacier

New record for shortest distance to unload the Tesla- 6 feet!!!! \240So excited

Lake Louise

Near the top there is a tea hut!

Lake Louise

Glacial silt flowing into lake

Lunch - potato and mushroom soup, cheese sandwich (looked much better at the beginning), tea and chocolate cake! \240

Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise

Avelanche!!

Lake Louise sunrise

Color coordinated

Coffee and protein bar breakfast on the shore

On top of the Rockpile at north end of lake

Tower of Babel

Mt Temple behind Moraine Lake Lodge

Happy Birthday Jacqueline!

The Big Beehive (bright bulgy lump) in the background is our goal for today

Long line for the Lake Agnes Tea House

Looking back across the lake to the tea house

Lake Louise from the top

How old are you today?

We picked up a sandwich and banana bread for the top

Another bird

Shelter on top of Big Beehive

Hiking around Lake Agnes

Did someone say Hummus and Pickle sandwich?

The Big Beehive from Mirror Lake

Banana and banana bread for dessert

Lake Agnes

Climbing up switchbacks above Lake Agnes

And one more bird!

Lake Agnes from top

Also tamarack trees changing color (deciduous conifers)

Dinner after long day of hiking

Heading to the bakery across the street for some lunch supplies

We don’t know those people

Lunch

Elk - only wildlife sighting so far

Pit toilets with skylights - very nice

AirBnB

Pizza for dinner

Rain on the lake - fortunately it didn’t last long

But we had our first moose sighting! \240With calf

Our boat for the cruise

Saw another elk in town, they are pretty common

Giant hole dug out by a rotating glacier

Monkhead mountain (do you see it? \240He’s looking up)

Spirit Island

We found some more of the Canadian Parks red chairs at Maligne Lake. \240Coffee and a maple cookie for a snack

Fifth bridge (so we didn’t actually hike this far… the first 4 bridges are beautiful but then we hopped back in the car, ate lunch, and drove to the last 2)

Second bridge…

Third bridge…

Fourth bridge!

The river has carved out very interesting formations throughout this narrow canyon

First bridge ( there are 6 altogether crossing the Maligne River in this area)

… and sixth bridge

Canadian Canadian Geese

Mount Edith Cavell

Pyramid Mountain

Pyramid Lake - not as cold as Lake Louise

Bridge to Pyramid Island

So, it’s mandatory that we stop at signs like this to take a picture.

Back at our AirBnB - apparently they make maps where the U.S. isn’t in the middle….

Bill is a little tired of having his picture taken at this point… also the happy hour special was gruel so Jacqueline had to try it.

Jasper has nice free lending libraries

Free charging at the train station! \240We haven’t paid to charge the Tesla since Golden a week ago! \240Also one of the few places with free parking we saw downtown

Visitor center where all our questions were answered

Elk are up early too

View from higher up

Is it a glacier or a giant slab of mint ripple ice cream?

Ice floating on the pond - no dipping a toe in this pond!

Cavell pond in front of Cavell Glacier

Early start to get to Mt Edith Cavell

Angel Glacier up above the pond

The temperature was 32 degrees F when we started out - brrrrr

Mt Edith Cavell

Aspens on the hike out

Fifth Lake…

Third Lake…

And First Lake!

Fourth lake…

More red chairs!

Second Lake…

Third Lake with Fourth Lake behind

We sat here for quite a while and enjoyed the beautiful weather

Saw another van - they did the same two hikes as us today (and yesterday)

Views along the Icefield Parkway

Mt Edith Cavell

Athabasca Pass

Gathering glacier water

Athabasca Glacier - one of six glaciers fed by the Columbia Icefield up above

This is a group from NASA testing a robot explorer in crevasses, to eventually be sent to Saturn’s moon Titan.

Waterfowl Lake

A lot of the hike was cantilevered over the canyon

Lower Falls

Upper Falls

Dinner at Saffron Indian Bistro

Our AirBnB for next four nights!

After our cruise, we rented a kayak for an hour

Fondue- thank you Swiss guides for bringing this cheesy goodness to Banff!

Someone made a little trail between the cheese pot and their mouth

Red chairs!

… and then a wedding started right next to us! \240(Congratulations Jess and Meg!)

Stewart Canyon Bridge

Our happy hour destination

Feet in the lake

Crowded paddle board

We found a beautiful spot for our picnic lunch on the shore…

Division of labor

Up on top

City of Banff and Cascade Mountain

Living dangerously

Hopefully minor maintenance work on the gondola support…

Short hike to the Sulphur Mountain Cosmic Ray Station (no longer in operation, because satellites)

Looking back at the boardwalk we hiked

Mount Edith and Mount Louis behind in sun

We stopped by the Fairmont Banff Springs next

And Bow Falls

Our AirBnB

Mount Rundle

Some of the art was broken and had to be put back together

Chocolate fondue for dessert

Vegetable broth fondue with chicken and beef

Vermilion Lakes

Four Sisters and One Brother

Three Sisters

Policeman’s Creek Boardwalk

Ducks practicing synchronized swimming

…10 days worth of dirty clothes

Evening stroll

Undergoing some repairs on the inside of the bridge

Peace Bridge

Little washer and dryer…

Prince’s Island Park

View from the AirBnB

Stop to buy chocolates at Cochu

Devonian Garden - indoor city park on top of a mall

Matcha Latte

People that we did a walking tour with for three hours - some Canadians, a German, one Aussie, a Swiss and can you spot the 2 Americans?

Calgary Tower

On a walking tour

The Central Library

Stopped by a free art exhibit of Gathie Falk

Studio Bell - music museum, closed today though

Saddledome and downtown Calgary from Scotsman’s Hill

Roy’s Place - That is a big cinnamon bun!

Need to pay to charge up - we went 15 days without having to pay to charge

Indigenous people as far back as 5800 years ago would drive bison herds off the cliff here in order to have enough meat to last the winter

… but this guy is waiting for the elevator instead.

Bison about to go over…

Some unhappiness when our route included a long stretch of gravel road afterward

National Park Visitor Center

Our home for two nights

Some more unhappiness as it closed that same morning for the season and we couldn’t go inside

Prince of Wales Hotel

The clear cut marks the Canada/U.S. border

We went on a cruise to the other end of the lake. \240It was more crowded than expected because a Rotary club was on board for a peace pole ceremony.

Back in the US of A! \240The cruise went to the south end of the lake, which is in Glacier Park in Montana.

U.S. customs

Still socked in to the south

Bighorn sheep

Old giant kilns

Staying in Moose Jaw tonight

We did a fairly corny tunnels of Al Capone tour

Staying at a B&B tonight

World’s tallest moose

B&B

Driving in Saskatchewan

Bighorn Sheep

Bison

Oxbow in the Little Missouri River

Cannonball formations

North Dakota