Through hardship
2009-07-29, Jasper, Canada. By: moreysci

Through hardship, perseverence and enormous courage this area was settled. Some of it is amazingly desert scape with a Mexican dryness about it. In the rain shadow. Had a very informative talk from...

All aboard poop poop! Here begins three days on a train.
2008-04-09, Jasper, Canada. By: ronnieed

Today is train day but the first task on the list of things to do is to ditch the hire car. During the period of time between booking our car and collecting it, Thrifty had closed their jasper office ...

The day that we went on the snowmobiles in the snow along the trail up the mountain.
2008-04-08, Jasper, Canada. By: ronnieed

We had to be up early again. Ready, fed and waiting for the 8am pickup in a pickup. They came a little early and we were still drinking tea. We had booked a half day snowmobiling what we got was a lot...

The ghost resort of Marmot Basin - Jasper
2008-04-07, Jasper, Canada. By: ronnieed

After a trip to the Bear Paw bakery for morning pastries we headed down the road to the Marmot Basin ski area. Having had a bit of confusion about ski hire and passes the night before we opted to sort...

No skiing but lots of snow. The drive to Jasper.
2008-04-06, Jasper, Canada. By: ronnieed

Today we drove to Jasper. This involved retracing our previous days drive by heading to Lake Louise but instead of driving the same old highway we took the more scenic back roads. We just hoped that t...