{"id":3342,"date":"2014-07-18T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T20:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/?p=3342"},"modified":"2014-07-18T16:00:34","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T20:00:34","slug":"banff-np-icefield-parkway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/banff-np-icefield-parkway\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Banff NP & Icefield Parkway"},"content":{"rendered":"

These Canadian Rockies are gorgeous. I continued to explore those looping south of Banff, a grouse mountain station 1:30 away from Calgary. I’m then past in Alberta.
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\n1. Castle Mountain, only some miles North of Banff.
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\n2. A male sheep that I managed to get close to.
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\n3. An elk.
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\n4. Small detour to the so much photographed Moraine Lake in late afternnon.
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\n5. Last sunrays…
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\n6. The first porcupine I saw. A real punk haircut! \ud83d\ude00 It was almost night, thank high ISO of Sony A99!
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\nI then drove the Icefield Parkway to Jasper.
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\n7. At about 7,000 feet elevation, lakes are still frozen.
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\n8. Wild Mistaya Canyon under rain.
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\n9. These mountains are really wild…
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\n10. On the way back of my hike, encounter with a plantigrade who ate dandelions! Surprising to see this brown bear grazing like an herbivorous!
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\n11. Further along the Icefield Parkway, the Sunwapta Upper Falls.
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\n12. Still some miles further, the very wellknown and touristic Athabasca Falls.
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\n13. Athabasca Canyon cliffs in a timid sunshine ray.
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\n14. Small incursion into a side valley to discover the Moab Lake.
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\n15. This mountain lake is removed, I was there completely alone after more than three hours walking.
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\n16. Back in the main valley at the confluence of two rivers.
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\n17. His insistent cries made \u200b\u200bme realize that I was in its territory. Sorry for the intrusion..! \ud83d\ude09
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\n18. Impressive north face of Edith Cavell with Angel Glacier Mountain. You see the angel’s wings ..? \ud83d\ude00 Several avalanches descended while I was walking to reach this point of view.
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\n19. My camp for this night at abot 7,000 feet elevation, with the same mountain in background.
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\n20. Sunset on Tonkin Valley, on the other side…
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\nThe next update will show you some image of Jasper National Park in a couple of days…
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\nThank you for your loyalty to follow this blog:-D
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These Canadian Rockies are gorgeous. I continued to explore those looping south of Banff, a grouse mountain station 1:30 away from Calgary. I’m then past in Alberta.     1. Castle Mountain, only some miles North of Banff.       2. A male sheep that I managed to getRead More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[462,451],"tags":[456,460,1012,457,459,455,458,461],"class_list":["post-3342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alberta-en","category-canada-en","tag-banff-en","tag-bear","tag-canada-en","tag-falls","tag-icefield-en","tag-rocky-mountains-en","tag-squirel","tag-tonkin-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}