Sharp's Travels

We didn’t leave our campground until 11am. We hooked all up and then Gay thought we should take the hitch extension off to avoid further strain on the bedroom slide. That took about 1 ½ hours. He got that set up and we pulled over to dump and we were on our way.

We spotted 2 doe down in the ditch by the road. They didn’t move as we went by.

We stopped at Rearguard Falls. It was a short 5 min. walk down to the falls. It was impressive. The water surged down over the rocks.

We pulled into the visitor’s center by the viewpoint of Mount Robson. (elevation 12,972), the highest peak in the Canadian Rockier. What a gorgeous view. There was a tour bus from Belgium there. The people were fascinated by our truck and 5th wheel. We showed them the truck and they asked if they could see the 5th wheel. Before we were through, I think the whole bus loan was in the 5th wheel looking around. They said in Belgium you would not be able to drive anything that big on the highway. They were shocked to hear only 2 people lived in it.

We also took in Overlander Falls. It was a downhill walk of about 15 min. to reach the viewpoint of the falls. It gushed down through the rock walls. It was very pretty. It was well worth the walk.

We were starting to see the Canadian Rocky Mountains. It was beautiful scenery. We spotted 4 elk grazing along the road. We crossed into Mountain Time just before we reached Jasper national Park, so we have lost another hour. There were lots of pull-offs to view the mountain glaciers.

We did one more falls today, the Athabasca Falls. It drops 40 ft., but it is through a short narrow canyon. The site was sure worth the stop.

We kept checking out campground sites as we went along, but they all had narrow entrance roads to get into the campground and we were afraid we wouldn’t be able to get turned around to get out.

The mountain glaciers along the way were impressive but not like the Columbia Glacier. The glaciers visible from the road are fingers of the giant Columbia Icefield, which covers 241 sq. miles.

It was getting late and we found no suitable campgrounds for our rig so we parked in the far lot of the Icefield Centre. There were already 3 other campers there with their slides out so we joined them. We had a beautiful view of a glacier out our picture windows.

For pictures of the day see album: McBride to Columbia Ice Fields 8-21-08