Shadow Lake Lodge was our big splurge on a trip full of camping and crashing at relatives' houses. It was completely worth it. We were nervous in the lead up because the lodge was so close to the fire closure areas and a nearby lodge had been evacuated, but Shadow Lake stayed on that outside …
The Icefields Parkway may be one of the most stunning roads in the world. Glaciers on glaciers, mountains on mountains. I'm so glad the smoke from early in our trip cleared and we had beautiful weather for the drive from Banff to Jasper and then back to Calgary from Jasper. For example, the mountain on …
In Jasper we did part of the Mina-Riley Lakes loop, and also discovered some really lovely breweries and bakeries in the town of Jasper. While Banff may have had some more epic hiking, Jasper definitely had more epic baked goods. The first set of pictures are from Mina-Riley Athabasca Falls was probably the most amazing …
I was planning on submitting these images to the Smithsonian Magazine annual photo contest, but I haven't been able to. The submit photo page has been giving me an error for the last 5 days from every computer and every network I've tried. I figured someone should get to see the work I put in …
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