Monday, May 28, 2007

The Trip - Part 1

Sorry it has taken so long to update. Uploading the pictures takes a while. Will upload a lot more soon. Will also upload maps with the route that we took. Here are a few pictures... A lot more details to come...

ALBERTA

Calgary from a distance - We stayed at the Westin downtown

Our campsite near the town of Banff, Alberta - We camped about 2 miles from the town - There were a lot of people around because it was Victoria Day weekend.

Banff National Park
A caribou in Banff
Icefields Parkway

After staying near the town of Banff, we drove into the park to the Icefields Parkway. John and Caitlin at our campsite on the Icefields Parkway in Banff National Park at 6500 feet. We camped next to Mosquito Creek but it was too cold for mosquitoes. We woke up to falling snow.
Icefields Parkway

An igloo next to our campsite at Mosquito Creek

Icefields Parkway

A lake on the Icefields Parkway

A waterfall that we found by trudging through the woods with the GPS

Our campsite at Mosquito Creek

Icefields Parkway

Icefields Parkway

BRITISH COLUMBIA

After camping in Banff National Park, we drove to Vancouver, British Columbia. We stayed at the downtown Ramada.

From Vancouver, we took a road called "Sea to Sky." It took us from the Pacific Ocean through several mountainous inlets up to the Rocky Mountains. We passed Whistler, the site of the 2010 Winter Olympics.

We took some remote roads through western British Columbia. They were dirt for much of the time and most of the bridges were only one lane. In one day, we saw 12 bears from the truck.

View from our campsite at Dease Lake, BC

Packing up after staying at Fraser Lake, British Columbia

A caribou in western BC

First sign for the Alaska Highway

ALASKA

Eastern Alaska

Alaska

5 comments:

Unknown said...

John showed us the entire Slideshow from his camera last night on my Wii! I linked to the Alaska blog on the Sean Malloy Blog!

Anonymous said...

I MISS YOU GUYS AND HOPE YOU ARE HAVING SOOOOO MUCH FUN!!! It looks really cold though!!

Kristin

Anonymous said...

Looks like ya'll are working real hard... Hope you're having fun Justin. Be careful... those bears will eat you!

Jena

Unknown said...

The pictures are great, I was thinking . . . postcards? but I figured you did too good a job of putting the people in, it must be fantastic.

Anonymous said...

I love the pictures....
What a trip!
I keep checking for updates?
Pictures of the laundromat...Costco.....Salmon . . .Dynonuggets...

Thinking of you...
Babbs