150608 JAC Travel

Jun 13, 2014: Sun Peaks - Vancouver
08.30 Departure. We are driving the Mountain to Sea highway by way of Whistler.
Last pictures of the group: lunch at the Subway.

Tomorrow the group goes on a cruise , to Alaska. I'm flying to Anchorage, a bus full of Dutch people, a tour by land.

Jun 12, 2015: Jasper - Sun Peaks
Sleeping late, we are leaving at 08.30 this morning. First 2 stops are Patricia Lake and Pyramid Lake.

a lot of driving today.
Mount Robson today

 and 1 week ago

 Lunch in Clearwater, at the Dutch Resort/Painted Turtle restaurant

Water lillies

with real turtles

driving and more driving
finally at Sun Peaks

Jun 11, 2015: Banff - Icefields Parkway - Jasper
Left at 08,00 this morning. First stop Crowfoot Gletscher

and then Bow Lake, Headwater of the Bow River, which runs all the way back to Calgary.

And a black bear stop

Paying no attention to a car that had stopped next to him.

Highway 93: The Icefields Parkway.

 At theColumbia Icefields we had a reservation for a gletscher ride

Gigantic tires with very low pressure (16 psi), riding on pillows.

 She did not have cold feet...

 40 minutes instead of 20, because our ice rover had a mechanical problem. But back to the bottom and from there another shuttle bus to the Skywalk.

Last stop: The Athabasca Falls

We arrived at the Hotel in Jasper at 18,20

Jun 10, 2015: Banff - Lake Louise - Banff
I got up real early, (could not sleep anymore)and went running at 05.00am, to the Banff Springs Hotel. It took me 17 minutes and on the way back at the river crossing bridge I saw a wolf. Some people saw some elk eating from the bushes yesterday evening on the main street, Banff Avenue. Anyway, we left for Lake Louise at 08.00am.
First stop just after the crossing from Alberta into British Columbia (BC)

In Alberta there are fences along Highway 1, but in British Columbia there are not.

and that is why we saw this across from the Highway....

The black lump in the middle was a grizzly bear. Eating flowers (for vitamins and minerals, needed after the winter sleep).

Here a picture of the Grizzly I saw a week ago.

Continuing, to Emerald Lake.

From Emerald Lake to Lake Louise Village.

to pickup sandwiches that we can eat at Lake Louise.

We were there for 1 hour. On to Lake Mouraine, with the 10 Peaks Mountain.

Back to Highway1, for a view of the Natural Bridge.

Back to Banff, we have got a 16.00pm reservation, going to the top of Sulphure Mountain.

 4 person gondolas, going to the top in 10 minutes.

 View of the Banff Springs Hotel and the Bow river

back down again at 17.00pm.
In the parking lot. This is the vehicle with which we go on the Columbia Icefields tomorrow.

We were at our hotel at 17.30pm.

Jun 09, 2015: Calgary- Banff
Leaving the hotel at 08.00am. First a tour of Calgary.

We could, because of some event, not enter the Calgary Stampede Grounds.
So here is a photo from above, from the Calgary Tower

Another view from the Tower

But first we went to Fort Calgary

We passed Chinatown

On the way to the Calgary Tower

Calgary Stampede Posters

 View from the tower, straight down.

near Stephens Walk

After lunch, off we went, to Banff.
Waiting for the Bus

30 minutes out of town, on the Trans Canada Highway (Hwy 1),
the ski slopes from the Calgary Winter Olympics.

When we got to Banff, a short city tour.
Banff Springs Hotel

 William Horn

We had a reservation at16.00 for a cruise over Lake Winnewonka. In the parking lot this:
Mountain Goats, a whole pack.

Lake Winnewonka

Back to the Hotel, where we checked in at 18.00.

Jun 08, 2015: Copenhagen - Calgary
I have been in a motel near the Vancouver airport since yesterday.
Today I flew from Vancouver to Calgary and the Danish group arrived at 18.30, from Copenhagen (plane change in Toronto). To Hotel Blackfoot