Road Trip Finale: The Canadian Rockies

We drove from Edmonton into Jasper National Park, then south on the Icefields Parkway to Banff National Park and Lake Louise. Simply put: the Canadian Rockies are beautiful. There are really no words to describe the awesome sights on the mountaintops and in the valleys and passes, as you look into the crystal-turquoise alpine lakes and see towering peaks and majestic glaciers looming high above steep waterfalls roaring into rivers. So I think it’s just best if I let the pictures do most of the talking:

After Lake Louise, we drove on in the rain through Yoho and Glacier National Parks (did you notice the last picture there is of lots of rain clouds obscuring the mountaintops in Glacier National Park?), and then right on through Golden, Salmon Arm, Kamloops…down the Coquihalla Highway…past more places with silly names, like Chilliwack…and…

FINALLY BACK TO VANCOUVER!!

Total mileage: 16,810 km (10,455 mi).