We took a yellow taxi up to the Banff sightseeing gondola on Sulphur Mountain. There were quite a few clouds but we still had some good views of our hotel and the golf course. We followed the long wooden walkway all the way to the Cosmic Ray station and saw the site of an early weather station built in 1903. There were many very tame striped ground squirrels and we guess some naughty people must have been feeding them. We looked out over the mountains and endless...

We might have like to stay here longer and explore the beautiful scenery, but we had to tear ourselves away from the beautiful view from our window and set off on our travels once again. This time our driver was Max, a very pleasant young Argentinian guy who is a very experienced mountain and park guide as well as provider of challenging outdoor activities and experiences. Our first stop was at Moraine Lake in the Valley of the Ten Peaks. Not really a genuine Mo...

We were picked up bright and early by Sue, our driver for the day. After pausing to admire some elk grazing on the verge, before we even left our hotel, our first stop was at Athabasca Falls on the river of the same name, a First Nations word meaning where the bulrushes grow. Very pretty name, but we didn't see any! The Falls were beautiful in the sunshine, very fast flowing through a deep, narrow canyon. We were delighted to see rainbows forming all around as th...

We woke early to blazing sunshine and clear blue skies. It was going to be another very hot day. There is no air conditioning at Jasper Park Lodge and our cabin had been like an oven when we arrived last night but with windows open and fans working overtime it was much cooler inside now. We were a good ten minute walk from the main building and we hurried over in time to eat a quick breakfast before the pick-up time for our tour by our guide, Joe Urie. We had it ...

We awoke much too early to a glorious sunny day in Kamloops. It was a bit of a scramble to get ourselves up, ready and down to the coach for 7.25am but we made it just in time. As instructed we left our luggage in the room to be collected and follow on after. Such trust that we will find our bags waiting for us in the hotel when we reach Jasper! Back on the train and on our way, we passed 2 bald eagles in a tree and an osprey nest on a telegraph pole even as we ...