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Rodney Boles wrote:
} Day
} 1) Arrival- drive to Banff - campground
} 2) Banff - C Level Cirque and some other stuff around town -
} campground
} 3) Johnston Canyon - hostel
} 4) Banff section of Icefield's Parkway - Peyto Lake - stay in
} campground
} 5) Columbia Icefields, Wilcox Pass, various falls - stay in cabin in
} Jasper
} 6) Maligne Lake, Mt. Edith Cavell, Canada Day - campground in Jasper
} 7) long driving day back to Banff - stay in hostel in Banff
} 8) Sunshine Meadows - hostel (LL)
} 9) Yoho, some time around Lake Louise - Fourth of July - hostel (LL)
} 10) LL - Lake Agnes Teahouse - camp in banff
} 11) K-country, Stampede
} 12) fly home
}
} The Wilcox Pass trail and Sunshine Meadows were our biggest hikes.
} Both were
} outstanding, even though we had cloudy, extremely windy conditions
} both days.
} I really want to come back and backback into Mt. Assiniboine
} Provincial Park.
} We actually got snowed/sleeted on briefly on both of these hikes.
} Would love to see Sunshine Meadows with sunshine. Across from the
} Wilcox Pass trail is Parker's Ridge. It was closed when we were
there,
} but I had done it before. It is excellent as well if it happens to
be
} open.
}
} Mt. Edith Cavell was a fun, easy hike to the foot of a glacier.
}
} >
} > Nice photos too, BTW. What time of day was the Peyto Lake shot
taken (the
} > first one in the gallery), if I may ask?
}
} This was in the late afternoon. Lots of puffy clouds in the sky kept
} casting
} shadows on the lake. I was very patient trying to get the full color
} of the lake with no dark shadows.
Thanks for all that great info.
It looks like you spent most of your time in Banff NP (including up to
the Icefields) and not as much in Jasper. Was that due to time
constraints or did you just like the Banff area more?
Really appreciate that response.
peace,
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