{"id":5675,"date":"2019-06-09T17:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T00:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/?p=5675"},"modified":"2019-06-09T06:49:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T13:49:35","slug":"jasper-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/2019\/06\/09\/jasper-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Jasper National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The first thing we noticed in Jasper was the vast swaths of dead pine trees on the mountainsides.\u00a0\u00a0 We are boondocking at a Parks Canada Overflow campground.\u00a0 No services except pit toilets and fairly level \"\"<\/a>gravel back-in lots with picnic tables.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s been raining off and on quite a bit, so the solar had been slow to charge the batteries.\u00a0\u00a0 The first afternoon there, we drove into the town and found the visitor center for a map of places to see.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s a nice small town built on the side of a small hill with a railroad station and track bordering the southern edge, and just south of that is Highway 16.\u00a0\u00a0 We drove up to Pyramid Lake,\u00a0 not sure why it’s called that as it’s not shaped like one.\u00a0\u00a0 After having a snack there for lunch, we drove back down to the town where I thought we would walk around; but the rain really started coming down hard, so that was sort of a bust.\u00a0\u00a0 So we headed down the parkway to Athabasca Falls by way of 93A, which is the old highway.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We drove probably 30 km to the falls, and they were utterly spectacular!\u00a0\u00a0 There was so much water trying to get thru, it was like watching chaos, or what one would \"\"<\/a>imagine chaos to look like!\u00a0\u00a0 The pictures don’t do it justice.\u00a0 I tried to take some short videos of it.\u00a0 I will attempt to post them here.\u00a0\u00a0 It started raining on us again, so we headed back toward the car and drove north back to Jasper.<\/p>\n

Athabasca Falls<\/a><\/p>\n

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We ended up driving back to the campground around 5 pm; and when I got there, I noticed the batteries were only back to 88% of full.\u00a0\u00a0 I brought out the solar suitcase I built and hooked it up to see if we could get them back to at least 95% before the sun went behind the mountains.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe 45 minutes after I set them up, it got windy and started to rain hard.\u00a0 I figured we were done with the battery charging; but when I went over to the door to make sure the panel tie-downs were working, I noticed a small patch of blue sky over the mountaintop.\u00a0\u00a0 To my surprise, the rain stopped a few minutes later and the sun again started shining very bright.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A couple hours later our batteries were back to 100%.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That was way better than expected.\u00a0\u00a0 After the sun went behind the mountain to our west, I went outside and stored the suitcase back on the shelf I built just for them in the basement.<\/p>\n

It’s been really cold since we left Lake Louise a couple days ago, and as I mentioned, this campground only allows two-day stays.\u00a0 We are leaving in the morning to drive up to Grande Cache.<\/p>\n

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The first thing we noticed in Jasper was the vast swaths of dead pine trees on the mountainsides.\u00a0\u00a0 We are boondocking at a Parks Canada Overflow campground.\u00a0 No services except pit toilets and fairly level gravel back-in lots with picnic tables.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s been raining off and on quite a bit, so the solar had been … <\/p>\n

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