Sam And Saundra's Year Long Adventure - Part 116

Sam And Saundra’s Year Long Adventure – Part 116

Canada

6/7/09 – Jasper, Alberta, Canada

 

Just before Jasper, we pull over to the side of the road – only because someone else had.  We were able to spot the coyote right over there thanks to fellow traveler’s good eyes. It was a pretty, healthy, BIG, coyote. When we get camp set up, Sam decides we are going to experience the Jasper Sky Tram.  This is a two ‘car’ tram that runs up and down the mountain until about 10 pm (still light outside).  We pay and get into the short line.  These tram cars do not follow a loop of cable, but each stays on it own cable and they have to go up and down in exact mirror fashion to maintain balance.  It is way far up.  Much higher than the one at Wallowa Lake in Oregon and Sam thinks higher or at least at a sharper grade, then the one at Palm Springs, California.  Either way – the snowy/icy mountains viewed from this angle are stunning, as you are no longer craning your neck.  It is mighty cold on top and for whatever reason, I had to return to the bottom on the next tram as my head got the dizzys.  It was just fine when we got down again, so it might have been the constant altitude changes all day – or like Ray says “altitude sickness”.  Whatever, I believe in it now. 

Even Sam Is Hanging On

We went from there to see Jasper the town.  Got gas and groceries, saw the many elk in and around town.  We then went on a mini-lake tour in Brutus to see some of the lakes we could see from the top of the tram.  Beautiful, small, fold-a-boat sized lakes (one was lake Pyramid), but way too much wind today.  I pooped out.  This has been a long, long day.  I finally convince Sam that we have a few more days until July first, and we call it a night.

Mt. Kerkeslin