and headed down the highway towards Hinton, noticed several other provincial park campgrounds on the way that bear investigation in the future as this looked like a really nice area......
it was a relatively short run. Didn't take long for us to arrive in Jasper National Park......
In the Rockies - again......
and to our favorite campsite, Snaring River, the first campsite you come to when you enter from this direction, and far enough out of town to be nice and quiet......the above is the area between the campground itself and the Snaring River.....
the early wildflowers that flourish in the area were over, but there were these Black Eyed Susans.....
and some Blue Flax
Since we had all afternoon, we decided to do something we hadn't done for years, and that was to go up to Mt. Edith Cavell to walk to the glacier.....this is the road that twists and turns it's way up the mountain....without a doubt this was the WORST road we encountered on this whole trip!
there is a very small viewpoint about 2/3 of the way up, this is the view looking back towards Jasper......
and this is Mt. Edith Cavell, just as you start out on the hike that takes you to the foot of the glacier.....
the path, as it starts out....it is actually paved for a long ways so wheelchair accessible, although I'd hate to be pushing one up there....it is a steep climb! I was much younger last time I did this!
stopped to take a picture of these little Anemones or Windflowers - it was a good excuse to catch my breath.....
close enough now to see 'Angel' Glacier - so named for obvious reasons.
one of the little plants growing in this harsh environment....
White Mountain Heather too - remember we'd seen this growing on the tundra.
Still working our way up the trail - the parking lot is way back there somewhere, you can just make out the flatter, return trail snaking along at the base of the hill.
OK....I seem to have skipped a whole row of pictures when I was uploading.....so all of a sudden there are Ernie and Shantz looking at a cave in the glacier......I'll upload the rest of the pictures that belonged before this, in another entry.
this is looking directly up at Angel Glacier....this was as close as I was going to get because every now and then a chunk falls off!
I just thought this ice shelf was interesting....it was a lot bigger than it looks in this picture...I can tell you walking here was not an easy task!
as we were starting back, a Clark's Nutcracker flew into this little tree......
further along the trail we came across this Yellow-bellied Marmot......
I guess he was used to being 'on camera' because he wasn't at all perturbed by everybody watching him.....
Golden-mantled Ground Squirrels were all over the place as well.....
finally....we arrived back at the parking lot
there were quite a few Clark's Nutcrackers in the parking lot, including this fledgling.....
and this one was busy on the roof of our camper! Made me wonder just what on earth it looked like up there!
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