Valley of the Five Lakes trail...

Here are some photos from the hike I did with two Australian friends over the weekend (the same hike as the videos posted below):

hiking the Valley of the Five Lakes...

Here's some video of a hike I went on yesterday, with two Australian friends who live on my floor (or I should say lived, in the past tense, because I'll no longer live there myself in a couple of hours. I'm headed out of Jasper this afternoon, driving west into B.C. and in the general direction of Vancouver...):

a frozen lake...

a meadow and a creek....

Hiking into a meadow with a creek running through it on the way back from the Valley of the Five Lakes:

driving through Jasper...

Here we are driving through the town of Jasper after hiking. Near the end of the video you can't quite hear what I'm saying because the window is open, but I'm mentioning that one of the hotels we're driving past, the Amethyst Lodge, is one of the four hotels that I worked for as gardener/groundskeeper up here:

Wabasso Lake, Athabasca Falls, Pyramid Mt. and Medicine Lake

Here are a few more photos from some hikes I did over the weekend; these first two are at Wabasso Lake:




Katina and Theresa at Athabasca Falls:



Pyramid Mountain:



Canada Geese in Medicine Lake:

Beaver Lake, Summit Lake and Medicine Lake

Attack of the curious sheep, near Medicine Lake:



Beaver Lake beginning to freeze over:



Summit Lake:



Beaver Lake at a different point, where it's not yet frozen over:



Medicine Lake, later in the same day from the photo above, with evening light:

Medicine Lake, Jasper

I finally made use of the video capability on my digital camera, and shot some short videos of Jasper over the weekend, when I went hiking both Saturday and Sunday. In case you're unable to play them, you can download quicktime by clicking on the subject line above, which is a link to the apple website. Hopefully that will do the trick...Anyway this first one is of Medicine Lake, about 15 miles from the town of Jasper, and where I've been several times:

Canada geese on Medicine Lake

Bighorn sheep

This one is pretty hilarious. I was driving up the road alongside Medicine Lake, and came across a herd (or whatever you would call it) of bighorn sheep. This is almost the same spot that I saw some a couple of weeks ago, so I guess they like to hang out there for some reason. Well I stopped to take some more pictures and, as you'll see, they sort of surrounded me: