We left Canmore Thursday morning - definitely more smoke obscuring the mountains in the Banff area! We took Hwy 1 and 93 through the parks to Jasper. Ahead was a traffic slowdown, and we inched along for about 20 minutes ---had to have been an animal along the road that everyone was looking at. A short distance later we saw a black bear climbing the ditch. The scenery on our route was wonderful - mountains, lakes, and the Columbia Ice fields with the Athabaskan Glacier. We pulled into the Hinton, AB KOA about 3:30 after passing a herd of mountain sheep just outside the boundary of the NP.
Friday morning we did chores around the campsite, and late in the afternoon drove to the town of Jasper (40 miles) and did some window shopping and did find a wallet and Jack got some moccasins for around the house.
Saturday we explored the town of Hinton, found the church, and then explored the town's new museum. The docent was very helpful and gave us ideas of other things to see...i.e. Brule sand dunes and the Beaver walk. After supper Saturday we went to the Beaver Walk.
Sunday we tried to find the dunes, but after driving 4 miles on the roughest road I've experienced, we decided to turn around and go back to camp. The whole trip was 8 miles round trip, and took us 1.5 hours! That's SLOW driving.
Monday morning after breakfast we started for Camrose and the Burkard relatives! We arrived in Camrose at 3:30. It was a cool and cloudy day. Around Edmonton we hit a good rain shower.
We will be in Camrose until August 18 when we'll start back to the States.
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