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I had only ever been west of Ontario once before this adventure, and that was for a 10 day road trip through the rockies over 7 years ago. When we drove from Calgary into Banff, and the mountains came up on the horizon I cried. And this time was no less impactful. I came from Edmonton into Jasper this time, when the mountains first came up I was on the phone with Claire, and immediately said "I gotta go", pulled over and just sat with it. I came into Jasper and stayed at the overflow campground the first night, surrounded by mountains, and elk roaming through the campground grazing. I made it :)

The first little hike I did was just a small one to the top of a hill, absolutely stunning views none the less. I chatted for awhile with a guy at the top who was taking a group of youth around to teach them about nature and culture, apparently the night before they had woken him up because there was a bear in the truck, it had climbed in the back window and got stuck! :O

driving farther into Jasper, I stopped at this rest stop and noticed one of the names of the mountains, Colin! He has his own mountain here. Turns out, the Colin peak is in the Colin Range! Jealous :P

The next hike was Edith Cavell, absolutely stunning. I thought the trail was only open until this little glacier, but it turned out to be fully open so I got to hike to the alpine meadow as well!

The drives too and from hikes often had just as much excitement :)

I went and did a hike near Maligne Lake, it had a beautiful view of the lake but more importantly at the summit there were a bunch of Marmots chilling.

The continuation of the animals everywhere, the time of year I was there was right when the elk were super active, there were so many, everywhere! This was a playground in the campground that they were making great use of.

Another upgrade to my setup, I got starlink, expanding the places I can work!