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After our bonus passport adventure yesterday we drove pretty late into the night. We found a little hotel at Pink Mountain, BC called Sasqwatch Crossing. There was a lot of Sasqwatch themed merchandise to buy in the store. We rented a couple rooms in the back and crashed for the night.

Well I didn’t go straight to bed, I spent some time blogging and getting the post(s) up yesterday. Then I got some sleep.

We set off early with the goal of getting into Jasper, Alberta for camp. We made really good time and the early start helped out quite a bit. On the last leg of the journey to Jasper we hit some rough spring weather. Mostly rain but there was a section where we found this slushy mix of hail and snow on the road for about a mile. The going became treacherous. We’re in a 4 wheel drive Subaru. he car is loaded with food and gear and not exactly balanced. This keeps the front of the car lighter. We were having some problems keeping the car going in the right direction. We got through the patch of road and made the call to not go through Jasper and Bamph. The road is high in the mountains and was getting the same kind of weather we just drove through. So rather than chance the car on a narrow winding road with some snow/ice/hail/rain/slush we’re going to Edmonton and then south to Calgary. Once we dropped in altitude the conditions improved. Now it’s just rain on the highway 🙂

We’ll miss out on the park but we will make it home. And that’s the important part.

On he other hand now there are a couple other national parks that we may visit on the return trip. And we will get back safely.

Did I mention that it was important that we get back safely?

🙂

We completed the AlCan highway. Made it into Dawsons Creek, BC today. 1500ish miles down… 1700 or so to go.

Even now we’re still surrounded by trees. Trees running off over the hills. Trees that start just past the clear cut zone on the side of the highway. Trees are everywhere. Most of them are Evergreen and Birch. A few others are just tucked in here and there. After a few days of just trees everywhere I’m looking forward to the open planes for a bit.

We’re moving out of the pretty part of Canada and into parts that look like Kansas and Colorado. So fewer landscape pictures today. I’ll have to get a little more creative with my pictures as we go on.

Enjoy today’s batch!

Turns out that originally all of the bridges on the Al-Can were wooden bridges.  Those were slowly replaced with metal and modern bridges.  This one still remains.  You have to duck out onto a stretch of the old highway to find it.

Even the bridge deck was wood.  We decided it was safe enough to drive across 🙂

Statue at the end/beginning of the AL-CAN highway.  I think he’s pointing the direction we were supposed to be going… not where we came from.  Too bad for him.

Ryan at the end of the AL-CAN.  The 3 indicates this is his third trip through here.  Not sure I want to be able to say that 😉

Me at the end of the Al-Can.  See how happy I am?  I haven’t yet learned that Colorado is more than a few hours away…

Into Alberta.  Woot!  One more province down!

Blurry shot of a caribou checking out the car as we drove bye.

Found this outside the Fuel store.  Looked so cool I wanted a picture.

Then I wanted one that shows the motion of the wind.  I like this one.  Ryan likes the other one better.  Just figured I would share them both 🙂