After over a week of fun in the Canadian Rockies, today is the day we finally leave the overwhelming beauty of this place and begin our journey home. Of course, we have a lot of fun stops along the way back, today being no exception. In order to get to Calgary, we took the same Icefields Parkway that led us to Jasper in the first place. Today, we stopped at a bunch of the landmarks we'd missed around Jasper and along the parkway. Man, some of these places were really, really packed!
We also drove by many areas we've recently made memories at, an immediate reflection of the nostalgia that would one day come to be. It was like a Greatest Hits tour. At the end of it all, we found Calgary, a big, bright city nestled in the foreground of mountainous horizons.
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| Town of Jasper |
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| Pyramid Island on Pyramid Lake |
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| Pretty bird |
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| Pyramid Mountain - so colorful! |
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| Seat |
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| Drove winding switchbacks to trailhead |
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| Hiking Mount Edith Cavell |
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| Time to rock scramble |
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| Yum |
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| Angel Glacier |
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| Frozen Cavell Pond and Cavell Glacier |
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| Trying not to slip (I didn't!) |
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| Thawed part of the pond |
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| Amy atop the rocks |
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| Greg down below |
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| Selfie with Angel Glacier |
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| Great place to take a load off! |
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| Athabasca Falls |
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| Great view of the falls |
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| Sunwapta Falls |
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| Athabasca Glacier, which we were on - find the Ice Explorer! |
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| Weeping Wall |
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| That's a hare |
Day 18 Rating: We'll be back one day, for sure 10/10
