Serious Scenery

The Rockies just got rockier.  It would appear that this is where it starts to get serious!  This is Mount Robson which is the highest point in the Rockies.  Apparently the top is only free of cloud for about seven days in the year - and today isn't one of them.  However, we should perhaps be thankful that we can see as much as we can as there is thunder and a storm is forecast.  The is a short glacier on the face of the mountain which must produce some spectacular icefall.

Moving on on the route over to Jasper, the scenery starts to become more dramatic.  It is a thought that Scotland used to look like this - on a smaller scale - until we cut down all the trees!  This is Lake Yellowhead with Yellowhead Mountain behind.

At the foot of the mountain, along the side of the lake, is a railway line which is regularly used by enormous goods trains which plod slowly up the hill.  They are all double headed and travel at a gentle 30mph as they seem to be about half a mile long and defy your imagination as they keep relentlessly up the hill.

We get to the campsite at Jasper where there are all sorts of warnings about rutting elk and assorted bears, but we find that for the moment there is not problem as a year old elk is grazing quite comfortably in the middle of the campsite - ignored by most of the campers.  He will become a teenager and then things might not be so tranquil!