Anna in Kanada: Canadien Rockies II: Rampert Creek-Jasper

The next day it was raining again and our van didn't start. We had to wait until our guide came back from Lake Luise with another Van. We spent the day reading and playing Tichu. Hihi Austrilians can't say "chchhchch", therefore its very cute when they announce a TICHU... We finally left Rampert Creek at 4 pm instead of 9 am and it was still raining:-(. If we had known that before, we had started the sauna... We went directly to Jasper for groceryshopping and then to the HI Edith Cavell, another wilderness hostel without electricity or warm water. Entering the dormroom we had a chock: inside it was as cold as outside, that means 2 degrees! We immediately lighted a fire...After a winterlike barbecue we finally slept in a warm dormroom.
But the next morning wasn't really motivating. It was snowing very wet and the fog was so thick that we coudn't even see Mount Edith Cavell, which is a wall in front of the hostel (as we were told). Nevertheless we decided to hike up to the Angel Glacier. As we arrived higher the wet snowflakes turned into beautiful big snow stars and suddenly we stood in front of a grey lake with ice floes in it. We tought beeing at the North Pole!

Angel Glacier

On our way back to Jasper we stopped at the Maligne Canyon. It's up to 52 meters deep and the fauna is amazing.

Just a few minutes away was the Horseshoelake. We only met two fishermen. We wondered if they both wanted to sit in that small boat..?;-)

Horseshoe Lake

Before heading to the Hostel we hiked up to Old Fort point and enjoyed the view over Jasper and the Valley. Finally it cleared and we took off one of five layers...

This night we spent at the HI Jasper, which is 7km out of town. Its a comportable HI, and we looked so forward for the hot shower!:) After this long day with so many impressions we were tired enough to sleep well, even in the 30 bed dormroom.
Only half of the Moosetravelgroup left the next morning. The others decided to jump off the bus and stay for a few days in Jasper. So they joined me hiking up Whistlers Mountain (has nothing to do with the skiresort, whistlers are cute hamsterlike animals sounding like squeezy bathroomtoys...). We walked up over tree hours in the fog. Alone i would have been afraid to meet a bear..Instead of meating a bear we lost the trail in the scree (=Geröllhalde). But the sun came out at the perfect moment, so we could see, that we stood just 15 meters next to the big trail;)...Suddenly we were higher than the cloud cover and could hardly stop watching the wonderful panaroma. A few steps after the tramway station the bottom was covered with snow so that the tramwaytourists coudn't come higher;).... We hiked further up, motivated by the beautyful view over endless white mountains, turqouise lakes and rivers and the town of Jasper. Wow!