Miette Hot Springs / Edmonton

It takes an one hour drive from the Jasper township to Lake Maligne, one of the highlights in the Jasper National Park. We hit the 4 km loop trail to Moose Pond at 7 am to maybe get a chance to see some wildlife but despite a lot of warning signs, still nothing. From there we walked on an old fire road up to Bald Hill, the road was covered in bear droppings but they stayed in hiding (probably better with the grizzlies 😬). Shortly before we reached the top it started raining and getting very windy so we decided to get back down because the weather in the mountains can very quickly turn very bad.
Luckily the weather turned better as we arrived back down and we had a few sun rays on the lake while we had our breakfast. On the way back to the highway we had some beautiful rainbows over the mountains and we even saw a bald eagle 🦅 at a rest stop! The last stop before getting back on the highway was at Maligne Canyon (actually a gorge).
Then we continued on to Miette Hot Spring with a few disappointing stops and short hikes on the way there 😅 The best thing were a group of goats right next to the road 🐐🐐🐐. We also did a little walk at an old mining camp where you couldn't see anything but some unmarked ruins 🤷‍♂️ But as we finished and came back to the car, there was a black Mercedes suspiciously driving around on the otherwise empty parking lot.
Then we spent some time at the - at best - warm springs. At least there were some cold pools as well so the warm ones felt warmer. When we got out the black Mercedes was in parking lot of the hot springs (about an hour later and 40km away 🧐). He drove slowly past us and Julia was already creeped out. But what was really weird was that when we drove the road back to the highway he got out of a side street directly after us and continued to follow us... On the highway we didn't see him anymore but almost expected to see him anytime turning up again 🙈

For the night we took an hotel close to Edmonton which meant a three hour drive in the evening. But the hotel was pretty cheap and had breakfast 🥰Read more