August 12 & 13/2014 Beautiful Hot day Tuesday 90 leaving camp in Golden, B.C., cloudy and showers Wednesday morning in Jasper as we head back.
We decided to leave the motorhome at camp for a couple of days while we ride the motorcycle on possibly one of the most beautiful rides in Canada -
The Icefields Parkway. Our round trip is 420 miles, and we have a bed and breakfast booked in Jasper.
Tip: book your room as Jasper is an extremely busy tourist village.
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| a stop for our bike along the way |
All visitors entering at
Jasper National Park will have a fee to drive the parkway, ours was $19.60 for a 24 hours pass, which allows us to return the next day. The parkway follows the Continental Divide in the Rockies and the
Icefield feeds 8 major glaciers, not to mention 11 mountains that are from 9200 feet to 11,200 feet . A must stop is the Athabasca Glacier where the visitor centre offers a trip onto the glacier in a
snowcoach and new this year is the 900 foot
skywalk over the Tangle Ridge Canyon. It's a drive like nothing else,,,,,,,, take a look.
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| Bow Lake - really is that colour! |
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| another corner along the parkway |
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| road threads through the mountains |
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| Athabasca Glacier |
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| Rosey drinking the Glacier water - it has magic powers |
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| Billy talking to our Snowcoach driver, no he wouldn't let him drive it back |
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| Skywalk - we actually didn't think it was that great |
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| Athabasca Falls |
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