She'll be coming round the mountain.

Another very scenic but quite short drive today with only around 325 km of highway driving to achieve. NOTHING like the mountains we had to go over to Lillooet much of the route followed the rivers. 

We saw plenty of wildlife including moose, elk, deer, and bighorn sheep. Our lunch stop was at Mt Robson where we admired the view of the tallest mountain in the Canadian Rockies with absolutely no desire to climb it.

Various shots of Mt Robson

more mountains

Not long past lunch the clocks jumped forward an hour and we arrived at the Alberta border and the entry to Jasper National Park and proceeded to our accomodation.

Quite confronting to see the firescar from last July. Recovery efforts are still underway. Over 350 residential buildings were lost in Jasper township and over 2000 people became homeless, many are still in temporary accomodation. At Jasper Park Lodge where we are staying, part of the staff residences were destroyed so they are still not at full capacity as some team members are living in guest accomodation. Tourism is being activly promoted though as it is an important part of the economic recovery. The natural domain will take many years to recover and many parts of the park are still closed to visitors.