Jasper I

In the dark it is a bit hard to find a not so well signed parking lot along the Icefield Parkway. Luckily the navigation system helped to find the right spot. The viewpoint is called ‘Goat Lick’ after the mountain goats that come to this area because of the minerals in the rock. I guess the mountain goats slept in this morning.


The viewpoint is along the Icefield Parkway and the Athabasca River, near Mount Fryatt.


The sun always makes the difference in a photo. On my way back to the hotel, for breakfast, I pulled over a few times to take a couple of shots.


Somehow it was difficult to take a nice photo of the Sunwapta Falls.


The rest of the afternoon the sun played hide and seek which resulted in gray photos. Luckily when I arrived in Jasper the sun returned. The good part of shooting in September is the low relative humidity. The mountains in the photo below, Pyramid Mountain and Mount Kinross, are a few miles from where I was shooting.


Before my late dinner, I decided to drive to Pyramid lake, North of Jasper. Just when I decided to head to the hotel, the sun started shining. There isn’t any Photoshop in this photo, the reflection of the yellow colored leaves along Patricia Lake was really amazing.


The wind speed that nearly dropped to zero, facilitated a near mirror like reflection of the kajaks in Pyramid lake.