Jasper day 6&7

Jasper is such a pretty place and the funniest if you like to hike and really be in nature. There was so much to do here we only scratched a very small part of it.

All the water around here is this color because they are ALL glacier feed.

You can see all the glaciers just driving down the road they are all different in size this was a big one..

Lots of water falls to this one was so long it was called Bridal veil.

This is at Athabasca It is the name of the river that makes up these falls They are incredible to see, they are also very noisy They put off so much mist that the ground is always wet.

This picture is looking down at where the water comes out after it falls.

It truly was a incredible site

On the way to Jasper is the columbia ice field

looking back at the Athabasca glacier.

The water coming from this Glacier is about 100 years old. it was so blue and crystal clear. people brought their water bottles up to the glacier and were filling them with the water.... I was NOT that brave but Ray did try it out of his hands and said it was great.

This is the ice explorer that took us to the glacier.

I was nervous when it was time to get out.... not as scared as Bill and Jeanette though..

Standing on the Glacier was pretty awesome I must say.

More water and all the signs say around this part "This is NOT a playground" so of course we had to get our pictures by it... Please notice who is NOT in the pictures.

The animals there as I have said before are so friendly this one wanted to go home with us.

These pictures are from a hike called the 6th bridge it is like uncle toms cabin if you have ever done that in Yellowstone you just keep going DOWN, DOWN, DOWN don't get me wrong I love the going down but I know I have to come UP, UP, UP.... that is the hard part.

We didn't make the all the way it was getting to dark and we were afraid we would have a hard time coming back up in the dark.... there is always next time.

The town of Jasper is the smallest of the towns we saw but the flowers are just a big and pretty as they can be.

Jasper was and still is a rail town so this train is in the middle of town.