Jasper

We stayed at Irvin's RV park in Valemont.  While here, we hiked the 4 k Cranberry Marsh trail.  It's an easy trail, well kept, fairly cool with several viewing towered.  This marsh is a natural habitat for birds and waterfowl.  Supposedly also beavers and muskrat with a possible bear siting.  All we saw was ducks , dragonflies and mosquitoes.

Jasper is 70 miles away, but NO full hookups....and we need the electricity.   The road is good and we were in Jasper  within 90 minutes.  Used our FREE Canadian park pass (It's their 150th anniversary).  Since we had limited time, we visited Medicine Lake.  Also known as the disappearing lake as it is so shallow.  The water is a deep aquamarine with lots of surrounding fireweed as they had a major fire in 2015.  Further up We had a picnic lunch at Lake Maligne. Interesting to note there are no motorized boats, just canoes and kayaks....also no campsites around this beautiful lake. We hiked the Moose Lake trail around the lake.  On the trail we're rangers who shared moose and caribou antlers.

Returning to Valemont we stopped at the Mt Robsons visitor center.   We were fortunate enough to capture Mt Robson on a clear day.


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  1. UnknownSeptember 1, 2017 at 4:29 PM

    BEAUTIFUL....You really saw some beautiful spot in the USA. JEALOUS, must have wine together when you get home.

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    1. FosseOdysseySeptember 2, 2017 at 4:24 AM

      Yes we will bore you with all the photos while we drink California wine (still the best)

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  2. UnknownSeptember 1, 2017 at 4:31 PM

    By the way leave the mosquitos we are getting attached here at home!!!!

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  3. Kathy KelseySeptember 1, 2017 at 8:03 PM

    how beautiful!

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  4. kcorrieSeptember 2, 2017 at 3:43 AM

    Was there just no sites available? We stayed in both Banff and Jasper national parks with full hookups, actually very nice.

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    1. FosseOdysseySeptember 2, 2017 at 4:22 AM

      Jasper was full... no fullhook ups. But we did stay in Banf National park, but only 2 days available. It's Canada's parks 150 anniversary and everyone's camping.

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