#mt edith cavell

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08.29.21🏔

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East Ridge, Mount Edith Cavell, Alberta

08.29.21🐿

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Jasper National Park

Jasper National Park is the most northern of the five National Parks in the Canadian Rockies.

The park has many amazing vistas to see, even during rainy days when the clouds hang low and drizzle makes everything wet. After driving around and visiting some of the sights, we visited the local farmers market in Jasper and settled in a local pub for a beer and cider and free Wi-Fi.

Our rainy day hike took us to the foot of the Mt Edith Cavell. 

We were able to admire Angel Glacier with its wide wings spreading on the mountain side. Water from the glacier flowed down to Cavell Pond where we could see chunks of ice floating on the water. During the warm summer days large pieces of ice can fall in the pond creating flash flood in the surrounding area.

144 miles long Icefield Parkway connects Jasper National Park to its neighbor, Banff National Park. The scenery along the road is breathtakingly beautiful. Luckily there are many pullouts along the road where to stop and admire the view.

One of the stops was at Athabasca Falls.

The road travels by Columbia Icefield. Although the icefield has shrunk during the recent years, it is still massive in size (125 sq. miles in area, 330 ft. to 1,198 ft. in depth). The ice fields are now a major tourist attraction. There was a constant flow of special buses taking tourist up to the glacier. With the cost of $80 per person, we decided to enjoy the ice fields from the roadside.

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Mt Edith Cavell

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Morning Light, by leiferik

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Stormy sunset over Sorrow Peak (Mt Edith Cavell far left).

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Mt Edith Cavell