Western Canada

Our journey north and west to Alaska includes several forays through Canada. First from Montana to Prince Rupert. Another from Skagway up to to Tok, then a third when we leave Alaska and head back to the lower 48 (route yet to be determined). Our first trip found the scenery amazing, the people friendly, and the gas breathtakingly expensive – especially at 9 mpg.

One snag that we didn’t think about: our hotspot didn’t work on the Canadian cell system, so internet was limited to places we stopped along the way. Thus this post covers from the border to Prince Rupert.

Crossing the border into Canada.

Sights from the site of the Calgary olympics.

Common signs we saw driving across Canada and up through the Canadian rockies on Highway 16.

 

Driving up into the Canadian Rockies. Absolutely, stunningly beautiful!

Talking about glaciers with other RVers.

 

The view from our camper at Columbia Ice Fields.

YES!!! It was COLD at the glaciers!

There was a group of six that set up tents in the grass in front of our camper at Columbia Ice Fields campground then spent the evening going through their ice climbing gear and packing their sleds. We heard them take their camping gear down and pack their cars at 4AM and drive away.

Sunny and beautiful the next morning…but still cold!!

By 6AM when we got up we could see the ice climbers across the street and going up the glacier. Touch on the picture to make it larger and see the climbers.

Bighorn sheep along the side of the road.

We have passed THREE time zone boundaries in three weeks…and we’re in the northwest where the days are really long! So we go to bed with daylight and wake up at 5AM to day light!! When we get to Alaska it’s called the land of the midnight sun in the summer so I guess we better get used to it!!

Driving through the Canadian Rockies was stunningly beautiful!!

This is an actual bear sighting…not like the moose sightings!! We’ve seen more the farther north we get.

Caribou sighting…we’ve seen several of these too.

 

Our first moose sighting…sad but true! People keep telling us that we’ll see lots of them in Alaska…we’ll see. One person told us that the increasing grizzly bear population has resulted in a decreasing moose population…

Yep, we’ve had some big storms too!

We’re in the area where Melville fished for whales. There is a Melville island too.

Caribou crossing…

 

He quieted the sea with His power