Stupid Jasper

The next day, our plan was to hit the Columbia Glacier on our way to Jasper. At the entrance to the Glacier National Park, we were told that the glacier was closed for the season (?) and that they had snow on the road. We decided not to risk getting slushy and headed instead for the tip of British Columbia (Kootenay region).

After some fairly endless driving and some pretty spectacular mountainous roller coastering, we arrived in Golden, where learned the term 'shoulder season'. We tried to learn the origins of this term but can only assume it refers to the shrugging that occurs when they tell us that everything is closed. From Golden we headed through more mountains toward Revelstoke stopping at Kicking Horse Pass.

By this point it was raining and quite cold and as it was still 'shoulder season' very little was open. Neil and Deborah visited the local fire department and museum and we proceeding on a very long drive back to Canmore. Everyone was a little punchy as we passed back through Golden, so we tried to feed various members of our mormon family to the vast quantity of roadside bears statues.