June 25 Thursday
We blew our wad in the Canadian Rockies and we are beelining for Alaska. We sat down in Jasper Community Park yesterday after being denied at the Aquatic Center for swimming and broke out the Milepost and an atlas. Rich started hyperventilating a bit when we realized how many miles we have to make. 1502 to be sort of exact. So much for seeing British Columbia!
We enjoyed Jasper. It seemed like a real town with a tourist veneer. It has a beautiful old train station with passenger trains arriving daily. The trainiacs in the family (of which I am not) watched and I went into the station to catch a bit of the World Cup. We tried biking Jasper, but without gears Ruby was too challenged. I feel I need to come back to do some biking. The trails out of town were fantastic. We did a 3 mile loop around the Valley of Five Lakes which was plenty of miles for the kids. I don't know if we will see nine miles out of them again this trip. Jasper was good camp time with s'mores, elk bedding down in the field by our camp, and very faint northern lights.
We are headed west on the Yellowhead Highway (16) to pick up the Cassiar Highway (37) headed north. We may or may not make it to the Cassiar as we need to make a stop for laundry and groceries. In any case, we are on the road!
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