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Day 27
Saturday, July 13, 2024 at 2:42 PM
☁️ 20 °C
Altitude: 1,603 m
Canada Herbert Lake 51.461062, -116.22384751°27’40” N 116°13’26” W
Kananaskis Country / Icefields Parkway
July 13, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
After a lazy morning, I continue through the various provincial parks in Kananaskis Country before stopping in Canmore for supplies. Driving day today, as I follow the world famous Icefields Parkway as the scenic option on my way to Mount Robson and Wells-Gray PP. Not very scenic today with rather cloudy weather, I plan to spend more time here at the end of the month.Read more
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Day 28
Sunday, July 14, 2024 at 1:21 PM
☀️ 22 °C
Altitude: 1,096 m
Canada Second Lake 52.81912, -118.01271952°49’9” N 118°0’46” W
Jasper to Mount Robson
July 14, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Drinking coffee with view of three glaciers is something that I don’t do very often. But that’s the advantage of being able to camp right next to Athabasca Glacier it’s two neighbors! as it’s cloudy here, I continue onto Jasper where it’s hot and sunny. I walk the.Valley of Five Lakes Trail, one of my favorite last year with incredibly colored lakes. Continuing on to Mount Robson, the highest mountain in British Columbia - I will see you last year, but the visibility was very bad because of the smoke from the wildfires. This year, no smoke! Last stop is Overlander Falls before I move to my campground at Mount Robson.Read more
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Day 29
Monday, July 15, 2024 at 12:52 PM
☀️ 26 °C
Altitude: 672 m
Canada Mud Creek 52.118686, -119.21667552°7’7” N 119°13’0” W
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River Safari to Wells Gray
July 15, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
I made my way from Mount Robson to Wells Gray provincial Park today, where I will spend the next three days. On the road I stopped for the River Safari in Blue z River, a tour on a canoe, then jet boat that I already did last year and great enjoyed. Last year was cold and foggy, today the weather was perfect.Read more
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Day 30
Tuesday, July 16, 2024 at 9:01 AM
☀️ 20 °C
Altitude: 674 m
Canada Falls Creek 52.138906, -120.19196352°8’20” N 120°11’31” W
Wells Gray Day 1
July 16, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
This park is famous for waterfalls and untamed wilderness to be explored by boat. I hike to various waterfalls today
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Day 31
Wednesday, July 17, 2024 at 12:08 PM
☀️ 28 °C
Altitude: 692 m
Canada Angus Horne Creek 52.379637, -119.98886252°22’47” N 119°59’20” W
Wells Gray Day 2
July 17, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
I took an all day boat tour on Clearwater and Azure Lakes today. The day started out sunny and fine, while we were at rainbow beach for swimming / canoeing/ lunch all of a sudden clouds and rain - a short thunderstorm. The lake looked very different on the way back. Beautiful in every respect and every arm, the color of the water is unbelievable.Read more
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Day 32
Thursday, July 18, 2024 at 4:09 PM
☀️ 31 °C
Altitude: 597 m
Canada Moul Falls 51.834647, -120.05011751°50’5” N 120°3’0” W
Wells Gray Day 3
July 18, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
More waterfalls today on various hikes and viewpoints in the southern part of the park. It was very hot today! For the first time since I’m on tour, after three nights with no power and not a lot of driving during the day, my battery got really low and I needed to go to a campground with power to recharge it. And you may see it from the hazy air and the pictures: wildfires in the area… it has been hot and no rain for three weeksRead more
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Day 33
Friday, July 19, 2024 at 12:44 PM
☀️ 24 °C
Altitude: 1,912 m
Canada Clearwater 51.769862, -119.93039751°46’12” N 119°55’49” W
Wells Gray Day 4
July 19, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Today I drove up to Trophy Mountain, a place where you can access high alpine flower meadows and great landscapes on a 12 km hike. On the road up I saw my first moose!
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Day 34
Saturday, July 20, 2024 at 3:34 PM
☁️ 35 °C
Altitude: 835 m
Canada Dufferin Hill 50.668613, -120.39363950°40’7” N 120°23’37” W
Kamloops to Salmon Arm
July 20, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 35 °C
I spend the morning on administrative stuff like shopping and doing the laundry. Then I’d arrive to the city of Kamloops and actually hike up a local mountain for a view of the city in 40° heat. It was … hot … but the view not too bad considering wildfires have started. I continue to Salmon Arm, one of my favorite places for birdwatching last year. Highway 1 is closed for construction and the official detour is 20 km gravel road! The dust was partially so thick you could hardly see the road.Read more
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Day 35
Sunday, July 21, 2024 at 1:11 PM
☁️ 36 °C
Altitude: 339 m
Canada Salmon Arm 50.715122, -119.2690550°42’54” N 119°16’9” W
Salmon Arm to Golden
July 21, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 36 °C
I spent three hours in Salmon Arm for more birdwatching watching in the morning. Driving day in the afternoon to make my way to Banff. The fire smoke impacts the view of the grandios mountain scenery…
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Day 36
Monday, July 22, 2024 at 4:06 PM
☁️ 25 °C
Altitude: 1,903 m
Canada Stanley Creek 51.187437, -116.05129251°11’15” N 116°3’5” W
Golden to Banff
July 22, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
The fire smoke haze is terrible today. I decide to hike the Stanley Glacier Trail in Kootenay NP - one of my favorite trailers last year. Not being able to enjoy the scenery, I concentrate on the small things - flowers and animals. Overnight in Banff.Read more
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Day 37
Tuesday, July 23, 2024 at 12:58 PM
☁️ 22 °C
Altitude: 1,637 m
Canada Ink Pots 51.278337, -115.82367851°16’42” N 115°49’25” W
Bow Valley Parkway
July 23, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
The visibility starts out bad but improve during the day. I drive up to Bow Valley Parkway in Banff national park, and hike 18 km to the Inkpots (cold springs) and the very popular Johnston Canyon - rightfully so, as it’s a Wonderland of waterfalls.Read more
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Day 37
Tuesday, July 23, 2024 at 5:44 PM
☁️ 23 °C
Altitude: 1,514 m
Canada Corral Creek 51.399587, -116.127951°23’59” N 116°7’40” W
Bow Valley Parkway more photos
July 23, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
I saw a beautiful elk bull and 2 bears!
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Day 38
Wednesday, July 24, 2024 at 2:18 PM
☁️ 20 °C
Altitude: 1,917 m
Canada Moraine Lake 51.321053, -116.18967451°19’16” N 116°11’23” W
Lake Moraine
July 24, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
Lake Moraine is another place that’s unbelievably popular, for good reasons: the color of this lake is really unbelievable. But you have to take a shuttle to get there and then to escape the crowds I hiked to Consolation Lakes. In the evening, I went to Vermillion Lakes just outside Banff, another birding hotspot and very beautiful.Read more
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Day 39
Thursday, July 25, 2024 at 3:52 PM
☁️ 15 °C
Altitude: 1,375 m
Canada Bamf Park Museum National Historic Site 51.173775, -115.57125351°10’26” N 115°34’17” W
Banff
July 25, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
I wake up and it’s raining! Good that I had planned to spend the day in Banff and visit 2 museums anyway. The Whyte Art Museum and the National Park Museum - the letter is a relief from the past, both building and exhibits of taxidermy animals an example of how natural history museums were supposed to be in the 20s. The weather improves, and I walk to Bow Falls and the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel, where I allow myself a nice dinner (and WiFi to post all this)Read more
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Day 53
Thursday, August 8, 2024 at 2:22 PM
☀️ 23 °C
Altitude: 5 m
Netherlands Amsterdam Airport Schiphol 52.310733, 4.7655852°18’39” N 4°45’56” E
Back to Edmonton
August 8, 2024 in the Netherlands ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
After a quick 10 day trip to Germany and Romania back to Edmonton, together with my sister and her family as well as 2 friends. Lots of people and lots of luggage, but we make it.
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Day 55
Saturday, August 10, 2024 at 6:57 PM
☀️ 24 °C
Altitude: 718 m
Canada Mud Lake 53.594887, -112.83497653°35’42” N 112°50’6” W
Elk Island NP
August 10, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
After a morning of biking for some and working on getting settled back into the house, I take Stephan’s friend Reno and his son Carlo, who will go to school in Edmonton for 6 months, to Elk Island National Park. We walk along Astotin Lake and get really lucky at Bison Loop on the way back: we see a large herd of Plains Bison up close! Elk Island is one of the few places that has herds of both Woods and Plains bison.Read more
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Day 56
Sunday, August 11, 2024 at 12:13 PM
☀️ 26 °C
Altitude: 621 m
Canada Cloverdale 53.539639, -113.47665453°32’23” N 113°28’36” W
Edmonton River Float
August 11, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Annette‘s and Stephan‘s best friends, Sarah and Stefan, have all kinds of watersport equipment. We go for a float/paddle on the North Saskatchewan River with a mix of kayaks, paddleboards and a raft. Very relaxing and great weather!Read more
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Day 57
Monday, August 12, 2024 at 10:10 AM
☀️ 22 °C
Altitude: 680 m
Canada Mill Creek 53.544746, -113.49002853°32’41” N 113°29’24” W
Downtown Edmonton
August 12, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Biking is the perfect way to explore Edmonton, a very bike-friendly town. Reno and I bike through parks and along the river to downtown, then to the Alberta Parliament Building and back through Strathcona, the university quarter. First BMX races for the kids in the evening.Read more
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Day 59
Wednesday, August 14, 2024 at 6:12 PM
☁️ 23 °C
Altitude: 1,148 m
Canada Cochrane 51.19013, -114.46962851°11’24” N 114°28’11” W
Cochrane & McDougall Memorial Church
August 14, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
On the road again! I leave Edmonton after lunch and take the motorway towards Calgary. I bypass the town on the north to the historic town of Cochrane. Nice old buildings and relaxed atmosphere! On my way along road 1A towards Banff I discover the historical church founded by Reverend McDougall overlooking Ghost Lake. So beautiful in the sunset!Read more
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Day 60
Thursday, August 15, 2024 at 3:33 PM
☁️ 21 °C
Altitude: 1,418 m
Canada Ochre Spring 51.16993, -116.15508351°10’12” N 116°9’18” W
Kootenay National Park 1
August 15, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
On the way to Kootenay NP I stop for a short hike to Twin Lakes in Bow Valley Provincial Park. After a grocery shopping stop in Canmore I pass through Banff and left at Castle Junction, reaching Kootenay, Banff NP’s extension into British Columbia. Three highlights right at the start of the park.: Marble Canyon, the Paint Pots and Numa Falls. I get into a thunderstorm on my way to the Pain Pots - the rain start up all the colorful mud in the cold springs.Read more
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Day 60
Thursday, August 15, 2024 at 6:02 PM
☁️ 22 °C
Altitude: 1,179 m
Canada Dog Lake 50.781792, -115.93212850°46’54” N 115°55’56” W
Kootenay National Park 2
August 15, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
After the first three stops, I drive south on Highway 93 along the Kootenay River. After checking in at McLeod Meadows Campground, I hiked the trailer to Dog Lake from there. The reflection of the mountains in the lake are just beautiful, and amazingly the entire lake is created by a beaver dam!Read more
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Day 61
Friday, August 16, 2024 at 1:46 PM
☁️ 17 °C
Altitude: 980 m
Canada Sinclair Canyon 50.632706, -116.05570250°37’58” N 116°3’21” W
Rainy Day in Radium Hot Springs
August 16, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
Highway 93 through Kootenay NP and in the Columbia River Valley at Radium Hot Springs. It’s a rainy day, so I spend time at the visitor center, in the library and do a 6 km hike around the impressive Sinclair Canyon during a rain break. I spent the night at a pretty weird campground: Horsethief Hideout, with lots of old cars and a fort!Read more
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Day 62
Saturday, August 17, 2024 at 11:42 AM
☁️ 18 °C
Altitude: 818 m
Canada Stoddart Creek 50.557828, -116.06525350°33’28” N 116°3’55” W
Columbia River Valley
August 17, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
The sun, at least partially, for the hike I do in the morning and mountain biking in the afternoon on both sides of the Columbia river. Steep banks, hoodoos, yellow, green and blue, beautiful.
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Day 64
Monday, August 19, 2024 at 9:41 AM
☁️ 16 °C
Altitude: 563 m
Canada Martha Creek 51.146614, -118.20279751°8’48” N 118°12’10” W
Arriving in Revelstoke / Lake Revelstoke
August 19, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
Sunday I drive to Revelstoke on the upper reaches of the Columbia River and meet with my friends Rob & Sandy. The next day, the rest of the family arrives and chaos ensues as we set up camp at Martha Creek Campground on Lake Revelstoke, 20 min north of townRead more
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Day 65
Tuesday, August 20, 2024 at 4:15 PM
☁️ 22 °C
Altitude: 524 m
Canada Locks Creek 50.95852, -118.16363650°57’31” N 118°9’49” W
Downhill biking & trains
August 20, 2024 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
As you might’ve seen in the previous post, the family is bike crazy, so today we hit the downhill trails at Revelstoke Ski Resort. I make my first experiences with downhill biking - takes practice. While everybody else still on the slopes, my five year old nephew and I visit the Raikway Museum where he really wanted to go. He completed the kid’s quiz and won the prize!Read more
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