Golden to Hinton, Alberta, Canada

25th June 2012- Golden to Hinton

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We had 3 days of lovely sunshine at Golden but unfortunately the weather turned foul and rained from then on.  Instead of staying on for the full 7 days, we decided to move on to the other side of the Rockies.

As we had a fairly long trip to Hinton, we left at 7.30am.

Low clouds covered the mountains.

It was pea soup weather at some sections of the highway to Hinton, Alberta.

We took it nice and steady as there was a lot of roadwork going on as well.

A fleeting glimpse of a fast flowing river - after the rains, we noticed that the rivers were a lot higher and faster flowing.

We are now well and truly on the Icefields Parkways, one of the most scenic drive in the world. The Icefields Parkways traverses the Canadian Rockies and straddles Banff and Jasper national parks. You need to buy a Park Pass to go through this area.

Just when I thought I had taken enough photos of snow capped mountains, there was always another even more spectacular visage around the corner!

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Visual overload!!

This is what you can expect on Hwy 93 North from Banff National Park all the way to Jasper National Park.  Lake Talbot is huge..is it one of 5 lakes in the valley.

We had noticed that there were a lot more Class C motorhomes in Canada rather than the lareger Class A. We were told that to drive a Class A you had to have a special licence.

Managed to snap these 7 waterfalls....pretty nifty when you've got the car window down and travelling at about 80/90kms/hr.

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Wished we knew the names of the mountains we passed...the rivers are fed by the glaciers and they all had a milky blue colour to them. Possibly due to the mineral sediment??

At last, a sign with a mountain's name - we stopped for lunch at this beautiful spot.

Getting lunch ready inside Al.

What a gorgeous day for dining al fresco!

As we neared Jasper, traffic slowed down to a standstill....there was an elk by the roadside.

Further along the road, another traffic jam...some mountain sheep had found some tasty morsels in the middle of the highway!

More mountains...we noticed that a lot of them have had slippages.

The temperature was around 13deg C. on that day but the wind chill factor was probably a lot less.

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A photo of us together!