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June 15, 2024

Day 160 / May 30, 2024

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Ember Hutton

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The elk wandering through the campground (and our campsite) were pretty cool. The literature from Jasper National Park made sure to highlight the fact that “more people are harmed by elk than any other wildlife” so we’ll continue to keep our distance even if they’re practically knocking on our door.

Today was windy and chilly but we had more exploring to do. First stop: Pyramid Lake

This adorable footbridge was built in the 1930s so visitors could explore Pyramid Island.

Adler, who is part monkey, found something to climb on straight away. 🐒

The view of Pyramid Mountain (are you sensing a theme here?) towering over us at 2,763 meters was fantastic.

Riggs spotted a loon in the water and decided to head out for it without noticing that someone (luckily Matt and not a kid!) was on the other end of the leash. Do bird dogs ever take a day off?!

Next up was a short but steep climb up to see views of the town of Jasper and the surrounding valley. The Athabasca River flows north to the Artic Ocean.

Adler thought that this mountain looked like Mt. Fiji which is appropriate since he’s moved on from spies and is now into all things ninja (hence the katana that came on the hike). 🥷🏻

Going up, up, up on the Old Fort Point Trail

The views of Whistlers Mountain and the river were beautiful from up high.

Then we crossed paths with some bighorn sheep… 🐏

They were just grazing on the grass until they saw Riggs staring at them. One of the females locked eyes with him and started acting aggressive so we hightailed it out of there in a hurry.

Adler was stoked to see that his subapline camo pattern was the perfect choice for today’s subapline hike.

We could see Lac Beauvert and Pyramid Mountain in the distance. Pyramid Mountain appears pink and orange because of the iron pyrite aka “fools gold” in the rock.

Mount Edith Cavell, with her impressive 3,300 meter peak, and her fellow mountains were on display right under the clouds.

We were able to enjoy 360 degree views from the top but it was windy up there!

We decided to make the hike into a loop and take the long way back. It was a little spooky being in the woods by ourselves especially when we noticed fresh bear scat. When we were in Glacier we called out, “Hey bear hey!” as we hiked to let the bears know we were coming. Since we’re in Canada now we’ve changed to “Eh bear eh!” and so far so good. 😆

Adler found a morel mushroom along the trail. 🍄‍🟫

And we all couldn’t help but notice the highlighter yellow colored moss on some of the trees.

Not a bad view right from our campsite!

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Hi! I’m Ember and I love traveling and photography but not so much organizing said adventures and pictures. Chronically blogging in past tense. :)