Puskas FamilyAlaska Vacation: 7/19/1991

John: We drove to beautiful (major beautiful) Jasper National Park. We gift shopped in Jasper, had lunch down the road from there. The mountains here are very majestic... much like the Grand Tetons. We made stops at the Athabasca Falls and the Sunwapta Falls they are truly awesome!!! They have so much power they roar and make the ground rumble. We made stops at some large glaciers. We also stopped and took pictures of a grizzly bear eating berries along the side of the road... and just down the road a few hundred yards were about seven mountain goats. They let you get within 3 feet away from them... so I should have some excellent pictures of them. These are different from mountain sheep 'cause they have straight horns, and they look a little different. We also saw a mother moose and her baby cross the road in front of us this morning shortly after we left our camp spot. They were so cute... they crossed too fast and we didn’t get a picture (darn it). It is very, very scenic here... wow! The camp grounds are pretty crowded and fill up quickly. We stopped at several and they were full. We stopped at Wilcox Creek Campground (which is just past the Columbia Ice Fields). We drove around and around the camp. A ranger told us that he had one spot left and said we could have it. When we got there 5 seconds later, somebody swooped on it... the ranger saw us again at the gate and said we could stay next to the telephones... Sounded like a great idea to us, as it’s very, very private level with a good view. It’s quite nippy outside as the wind is blowing off the ice fields & glaciers... It even snowed a teeny bit while I BBQ’d our steak supper. We drove 171 miles today. The rock guard got another bird...

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