Thursday, June 17, 2010

Icefields to Valemount--June 16

It snowed last night while we were parked at the Icefields, but just flurries. When we left this morning it was 36 degrees and sunny. As we travelled we looked down into the valley and it was just covered by clouds or fog--beautiful. Had to turn out and take pictures of a beautiful falls called Tangle Falls. Right out of the gun Dee and Marvin saw mountain goats and later more of the group said they had seen them. By the time we got there they were gone. I did see a small elk later down in the valley. We stopped later at Athabasca Falls and Bob and I walked all the way down to its outlet. Later we stopped in Jasper and looked around and ate lunch. We bought Samara a cute T-shirt and then "the boys" napped before we left to head out. We did stop at the Mount Robson Visitors Center. Mt. Robson is 12,972' and is the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies--the very tippy top was covered with cloud so we went on to our campground "Irvins Park and Campground" in Valemount. The caravan leaders fixed supper for us last night--pulled pork barbeque, salad, green beans, macaroni salad and a piece of lemon cake with whipped cream. Very good. The name Valemount means "Valley of the Mountains" and it is appropriate. Tomorrow we go on to Prince George.

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