Saturday, July 29, 2006

Trip to Banff/Jasper: Day 4

Monday morning we got up heading on north. Not too far up the road we came across Bow Lake. We decided to stop and take a look.



At the far end of the lake was a big waterfall, and we decided it wasn't that far to walk, so we took off for it. Here's the lower part on the way to the falls.



Towards the end there was a pretty steep hill we had to climb, then down the other side and across a rock land to the waterfall. Alodia was ahead of Kevin, and stopped to wait for him. Only he had followed another path and ended up ahead. After Alodia called for and waited for Kevin for 5 minutes, she finally realized maybe he wasn't around. She glanced down and saw at least 15 mosquitoes on her legs. That added another 20 mosquito bites to the 7 she already had...

Finally made it to the waterfall. Turns out it was a bit farther than expected, but well worth the walk. We had beautiful views of the lake and mountains.



We stopped at Jonas Creek Campground that night. We met a man (with his family) from Darwin Australia, another couple from Germany, and a church group of teen boys bicycling from Jasper to Banff. We also kind of learned a new game from the boys. Was the smallest campground we stayed at, but with the most diversity of people. Pretty neat.

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