We still drive along the Icefields Parkway
The landscape...
is amazing!
In the meanwhile we arrived in Jasper.
Oh yeah...
Having dinner.
Reinhold can't check himself because he's enjoying it so much.
But everything's fresh. We got supplies for the next
three days that we will spend here at least. And then we will
check out Jasper during the next days.
And explore.
We're hiking in Jasper National Park and now we're having a look at the
Maligne Canyon. Pretty nice!
After that we continue to Medicine Lake and
Maligne Lake and up to the
so called Bald Hills.
We're halfway down to Maligne Lake.
That's Medicine Lake.
Also a nice Lake with Mountain view.
And burned forest.
There was a wildfire in 2015 and
back there
everything burned down. Totally crazy.
Excelsior Wildfire.
Squirrels are besieging us.
Actually we just want to make breakfast.
Unfortunately we didn't make it all the way for the 44 km trough this valley
But
still we found a nice spot to
to eat.
Snacking our stuff and then we hike back.
Another day, another hike!
While the other
there, somewhere
chilling in the hot springs.
I decided to hike up a hill.
It's called Sulphur Skyline. I'm not at the top yet.
It already looks
pretty nice. Concerning the hot springs down there
They pump water from hot springs
into pools and keep them at constant 39 degrees.
And one can bath in there.
That's it! That was the mountain.
Now I'm looking forward to the hot springs!
Yeah, hot springs...
That pool back there has 40 degrees and then there are
pools for refreshing. It's quite like a sauna.
Quite smooth!
Yeah so after we
checked out Banff and Jasper National Parks
our road trip actually starts. So far
we were only within the boundaries of national parks. And now
it's about driving the 1800 km to Nahanni National Park
For that we will probably need
two to three days.
We bought a lot of supplies from Walmart and Safeways
filled up on gas and now we totally get going!
Totally. Yeah Totally!
We're not just starting,
we drive off towards that 1800 kilometers to Nahanni National Park!
Yo! So today we
drove about 280 km
out of the 1800 that are actually head of us.
We just
parked on a side road off the highway.
Reinhold is sleeping here in the tent, we're sleeping in the car.
Word up! It's beautiful and we feel good.
We're looking forward to the next
1600 km!
We just stopped in
Grande Prairie and bought an axe.
Especially for the canoe tour that we are planning it'S quite important.
For making fire. Yeah and now we're
finally fully equipped.
We have over 1000 km left
to Nahnanni National Park.
We already
drove 340 km past
Jasper. Really? Yes.
We have a little more than 1000 km to go.
Peace river is quite nice.
I just heard someone say this neat bridge looks like the one in San Francisco!?
In the middle of nowhere.
Let's continue!
Short update about Nahanni National Park.
We failed quite hard!
After 300 km we noticed that...
the only possibility to enter it is to book a charter plane.
And
unfortunately we don't have enough peanuts for that. Therefore..
we then
turned and now we're directly heading to
Alaska or rather to Whitehorse and
unfortunately we skip Nahanni NP.
Too bad! So let's go north!
On the Alaska Highway
the summer months are used for road construction
so we have to stop every once in a while. And there is someone with a
stop sign.
They are actually paying people to stand there the whole day
in the sun and to hold the stop sign.
Instead of
simply using traffic lights as it is common for us.
We're hanging around here.
Yep. And it's totally exciting!
The target for today is about 600 km away.
And if it continues that way it will be like...
As for the landscape
we're driving trough huge forests.
And it's quite amazing that there are other cars around,
because actually we're always alone.
Rarely someone passes.
Rarely someone overtakes.
We're on our way to Alaska and we just stopped.
On the Alaska Highway.
We just stopped because we're so sick!
Evelyn can't control herself.
YEAAH! We just stopped!
The condition of the car was examined as bad.
It's not that good, but..
it's still cooling!
We might clean it.
Yeah.
So we're still on our way to Alaska.
Actually to Whitehorse, to be more specific.
We drove all day today.
We're moved more far to the west. More or less we are now in the Rocky Mountains again.
Again passing trough them.
Nice landscape and nice mountain creeks again.
Typical for Canada.
We're driving along Muncho Lake now.
A very long lake.
?!?!?!
I think Reinhold is about to get crazy.
He can't bear us anymore.
Not sure what's wrong with him.
I actually quite like it.
In the middle of nowhere.
Good morning guys!
On our way to Alaska we
spent the last night opposite of the Liard Hot Springs.
The hot springs where we are right now.
Super enjoyable for a cold morning
to bath here. Before 8 am it's free.
The Liard Hot Springs are natural hot springs.
So back there, there are
two springs, one cold and one warm.
Which leads to a comfortable temperature of about 42 degrees.
It's really warm. One shouldn't stay in too long.
It's steaming!
Slight smell of sulfur.
With nice gravel around it
natural landscape. Some people back there
lotion themselves with mud directly
from mother earth.
One granny made a mud mask back there. She just swam to the edge and
just lotioned herself.
We're about to leave the province British Columbia
and drive into the Yukon.
And then back to British Columbia.
And a few more border crossings.
But we found the sign and we have to take a photo.
One of the most famous sights here on the highway to Alaska
is this sign post forest.
During the construction
of the highway there was a sign here
pointing to various cities in the world and
presenting their distance in kilometers
One of the construction workers
figured he would add his home town.
Because he was homesick.
Ever since people came here to add more signs.
And now there all kinds of signs here. From all over the world.
55000 thousand signs!
So we're somewhere in the Yukon on our way to Alaska
and of course there is a Dynamo sticker here! (soccer team from Dresden)
Yo! The Dresden sign is also here!
Obviously Dresden is here multiple times.
Dresden put in effort! 10000 km!?
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