"18 Jasper National Park" Tombuttle's photos around Jasper, Canada

Preview of Tombuttle’s blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Jasper, Canada Entry Title: “18 Jasper National Park” Entry: “After giving up on Switzer and Wildhorse Provincial Parks (not my kind of camping where you are too close to your neighbour), we breezed into the town of Jasper where we wet our whistle (had two pints of Big Rock Traditional Ale) at the Whistle Stop pub which included a music jam on Sunday afternoons. Bogie loved the Big Horn sheep scattered around the park — but they didn’t . Moved into the Wabasso campground for four days with a site just a stone’s throw from the milky white (due to glaciers crushing stone) Athabasca River — a great campsite with even better sound effects. From this base, we hiked the Maligne Canyon, espied Medicine Lake (two rivers in with the only outflow being an underground river surfacing fifteen kilometres away) and visited Jasper Lodge on one day. Also did day hikes to Virl Lake and toured Mount Edith Cavell with its Angel Glacier. Finished our stay by viewing Pyramid Lake and shopping for the upcoming fifty kilometre backpack trip to get away from the long-weekend campers. Our four day hike started on Thursday morning at Sunwapta Falls where we left the van (more on that later) and headed for Big Bend with the packs brimming with supplies to spend our first night. Within ten minutes of setting up …