Jasper NP (Wabasso Campground) (Day 2) - Jasper, AB

The Red Chairs at Pyramid Lake

Armed with a Jasper NP Hiking Guide, we set out to do a few walks.  First on the list, Pyramid Lake. It's a tiny lake with an island.  You can walk to the island over a little bridge.  Behind the lake is a wooded climb up a hill to a pair of Red Chairs. These are chairs placed on hillsides around Jasper that have tranquil views.  I wanted to sit in all the Red chairs in Jasper, but Deb used the word "obsession"...now I don't want to anymore.

The rest of the morning and early afternoon was spent hiking around Maligne Canyon.  Absolutely fascinating.  A stream that has cut a hundred foot deep gorge through limestone and granite, but the gorge is only ten to thirty feet wide.  The steam is fed by a large cave system and you can see water just gushing in from these cave openings.  And at the top, just when you think it couldn't get any better, there is a tea house serving lunch.

Water from a cave in Maligne Canyon 

In the afternoon we walked along the shore of Maligne Lake, a favorite photographic location.  On the way back, we stopped at Medicine Lake, where the devistating forest fires burned last year, and ate dinner.

Wildlife Count - two bears, two moose, forty caribou, many marmot (it's a Canadian word for squirrel)

Maligne Lake