The weather is a bit overcast and rain is forecast but we start our morning with a 6 mile circumnavigation of Jasper running along the heritage trail. The first half was very flat as it follows the railway but the second half goes up into the hills behind Jasper so was a lot slower with plenty of Strava segments!We decided to visit Maligne Canyon. A large car park suggested it might be very busy especially as it was a bank holiday today. The canyon was very impr...

Hinton was OK ,we did a run, some geocaches and I think it was our cheapest hotel and we got breakfast. The scenery out of Hinton got more dramatic as we approached the Rockies. We decided to go up to Miette hot springs, but being bank holiday weekend they were very crowded and abandoned the idea , so we went off on a walk which kept taking us higher and higher through forests, ideal territory for bears we thought but no bears were seen and we never got to anywh...