Mt Edith Cavell hike

It rained overnight but stopped by morning. Only 4C though. We had oatmeal for breakfast, and packed a lunch.

We drove up to the Mt Edith Cavell hike. The drive up is quite nice, a twisty road with some good views

Looked like these folks boondocked here last night, in a pulloff about halfway up

We (and our Lab) hiked up the Glacier Loop trail, it goes to the base of the glacier at the foot of Mt Edith. It's only a 1.6 km loop, but climbs 80 meters from the parking lot to the glacier. 

 

Doesn't our Lab look excited

Looked like reforestation was being done

A really nice hike, this drive and hike was the high point of our Jasper visit. The brochure said to get there before 10am as parking is limited. Sure enough, by the time we were leaving about 11am the lot was almost full. This on an early-season, cloudy rainy (by then) morning.

Then we drove on around #93A (the old park highway) to Athabasca Falls, where we got out for a hike. Our dog had to stay in the car this time, Park rules. Pouring rain at times. Pretty busy, but the parking was nowhere near full. It's easy to get to from the main road, if you go the reverse direction to what we did. Nice close views of the falls, very full right now with all the spring water

With the rain, we couldn't find a place for lunch, so went back to the camper and had lunch there. Then about 2:30 we decided to go have showers – it was far enough to the central services that we had to drive for them from our site. Only to find that the shower buildings, right beside each other, are both closed for cleaning from 2-3:30! How hard would it be to close and clean one at a time?

So we went in to Jasper town instead. Went to the local library for Internet this time ($2.50 for 1 hour). Blog and email. Filled up with gas again, got some tomato soup and juice.

Back at the camper the rain had stopped, and it turned into another nice evening for sitting outside. Cool enough later on to turn on the furnace though, before bed time.