The devastation from the fires is very much evident and we were told it will take a generation to recover. In the background, you can see that the fires spread right up the mountains to the very tree ...

All of Jasper is neat, tidy and very tranquil - at this time of year!

Japer isn't much more than the main street and the railway line! Looks good though in the evening light.

Walking over its surface was quite surreal and there was a lot to explore: the different colours, the rapid flowing streams, the holes (!). There was 150m of ice under us.

Spilling out of the Columbia Icefield are a number of glaciers. This was our transport to one of them and our guide Ben.

At the other end - the toe - there were massive aggregations of moraine which the truck easily passed over. A very sobering thought was the rapid shrinking of the glacier over the past few years. Ther ...

We were up bright and early the next morning and back in the viewing dome to catch our first glimpse of mountains,

The treat on the train from Vancouver was sitting in the glass viewing car on the second floor. Working our way towards the Rockies, we followed the Fraser River upstream. Lots of gorges and tunnels.

This was a tad colder around the legs as we went up to the summit via ski lift.

Our little gondola provided great views of Vancouver as we went up the side of Grouse mountain.