12 June 08, Thursday
We had breakfast together, took another picture of Alfred in front of his house and drove on, happy to be on the road again. I found a place to top up the propane tank; filled up the fuel and now we were ready to leave civilization behind us. The sun was shining and the temperature slowly rose to 20ºC only to get back down to 12 in rain in the evening again.
We drove through Banff and walked a bit around Lake Louise. We followed the Icefields Parkway to Jasper, a real treat to drive this road in sunshine. The mountains are high and all the tops are still snow covered. When we drove this road a few years ago in the beginning of July we had a big snowfall; 6” so much that the people mover would not drive the visitors to the Columbia Ice field. There was also some wild life for us to photograph: Elk, Mountain Sheep and Mountain Goat; no bears so far.
We crossed into B.C. and found a nice campground in the woods, with hot showers too.
Our overnight stop is at: N 53º 01.439’ W 119º 14.820’
