Road Trip out West, May 14, 2017

Leif Norman

Jasper in the morning and then down the Icefields Parkway to the Athabasca Glacier. We stayed in a Revelstoke Hotel for some civilization.

 

I don’t know why I am always taking photos of little plants when I travel

 

Packing up the car at Wapiti Campground south of Jasper

 

 

Athabasca River

 

A very Canadian Photograph. A tree, a mountain, a river.

 

 

Driving through the mountains

 

Revelstoke with clouds crawling over the mountains

 

 

 

 

Jasper Rail Station

 

Inside the Jasper Train Station

 

Jasper, Alberta

 

Jasper Firehall

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jasper the Bear

 

The history of Jasper the Bear

 

A lovely Canadian postcard. Athabasca River near Jasper, Alberta

 

 

 

Tangle Creek Waterfall on Highway 93 south of Jasper, Alberta

 

 

 

Athabasca Glacier

 

 

 

 

The glacier has been receding for a very long time. Athabasca Glacier.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Athabasca Glacier

 

The Glacier has scraped rocks against each other leading these grooves. Glacial Striation

 

 

 

 

Icefields Parkway mountain scene.

 

 

 

We stopped briefly at Lake Louise and the Chateau but there was a storm coming in

 

Lake Louise. Danger Thin Ice. But that’s OK. You can still walk all over it. I’m sure it will all right.