{"id":1781,"date":"2015-09-19T08:10:29","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T14:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventuresoflupe.com\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2019-03-16T11:22:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T17:22:46","slug":"mount-edith-cavell-jasper-national-park-canada-7-29-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adventuresoflupe.com\/?p=1781","title":{"rendered":"Mount Edith Cavell, Jasper National Park, Canada (7-29-13)"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 7-28-13, Day 19 of her 2013 Dingo Vacation, Lupe visited Sunwapta Falls and Athabasca<\/strong> Falls<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0in Jasper National Park.\u00a0\u00a0After seeing both of these impressive waterfalls,\u00a0it was still\u00a0early afternoon, so there was plenty of time for Lupe to look for more adventures.\u00a0\u00a0From Athabasca Falls, SPHP drove N on Hwy 93A instead of returning to the main Icefields Parkway Hwy 93.\u00a0 Although paved, Hwy 93A proved to be much more of a back woods road than the main highway.\u00a0 It was bumpy and patchy, and didn’t have much traffic on it.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0paved side road leading W to Moab Lake (7 km) looked interesting, but shortly after getting on it, the pavement ended.\u00a0 The gravel road that continued onward was full of stones and potholes.\u00a0 It wasn’t long before SPHP gave up on the Moab Lake idea, and turned the G6 around to return to Hwy 93A and continue N.\u00a0 Eventually Lupe & SPHP reached the side road to Mount Edith Cavell<\/a><\/span><\/strong> (11,033 ft.)<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0the main attraction SPHP was aware of accessible from Hwy 93A.<\/p>\n

The road to Mt. Edith Cavell was 14 km long, very narrow and windy, but all paved and in beautiful, almost new condition.\u00a0 It started raining lightly as\u00a0the G6\u00a0wound\u00a0its way up the mountain.\u00a0 After quite a distance, Lupe and SPHP arrived at a very small pullout with an overview of a cloudy, but gorgeous mountain valley with a river running through it far below.\u00a0 Snowy peaks were visible at the upper end miles to the NW.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The Tonquin Valley from the road to Mount Edith Cavell. This looked like a beautiful place to explore, but unfortunately for Lupe, dogs are not allowed in Tonquin Valley.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A sign a bit\u00a0farther\u00a0along the road\u00a0indicated that Lupe and SPHP had just seen a portion of the famous Tonquin Valley.\u00a0 Unfortunately\u00a0for\u00a0Lupe, Tonquin\u00a0Valley is closed to dogs.\u00a0 It looked like a beautiful place to explore.<\/p>\n

After winding around on the road a bit longer, Lupe and SPHP were getting quite close to Mount Edith Cavell.\u00a0 The place was so busy, it wasn’t even possible to get to the large parking lot.\u00a0\u00a0There were cars parked along the road well before the parking lot was reached.\u00a0 SPHP parked the G6 by the side of the road, too.\u00a0 By now the weather had closed in enough so clouds hid the top of Mount Edith Cavell, while it continued to sprinkle rain.\u00a0 It was still only about 2:30 PM.\u00a0 Lupe and SPHP stayed in the G6 and took a nap in the hope that the weather would eventually clear.<\/p>\n

SPHP awoke a bit after 5:00 PM to find that it was raining harder, not less.\u00a0 Quite a few cars had left, but Mt. Edith Cavell must be a very popular destination as cars\u00a0continued to come and go despite the rain.\u00a0 SPHP moved the G6 forward to the main paved parking lot, which was now less than 1\/2 full.\u00a0 Lupe stared out the window and watched people, while SPHP wrote in the trip journal.<\/p>\n

By\u00a06:45 PM, the rain had stopped.\u00a0 There were only 5 or 6 other cars left in the parking lot.\u00a0\u00a0The sky\u00a0was still completely overcast and it was a chilly 45\u00b0F out.\u00a0 Lupe and SPHP hopped out of the G6 and took the not very long trek (about 20 minutes one way) up the trail to see Mount Edith Cavell.\u00a0 There was a clear view of much of the mountain, including the Angel Glacier, but the top of the mountain remained shrouded in clouds.\u00a0 There was more trail to explore, but signs said the rest of it was closed to Dingoes.\u00a0 Since everything was still wet and gloomy, Lupe and SPHP returned to the G6.<\/p>\n

The next morning (7-29-13 and Day 20 of Lupe’s 2013 Dingo Vacation), everything had changed.\u00a0 At 6:30 AM, Lupe and SPHP headed back up the trail to Mount Edith Cavell as far as Lupe was allowed to go.\u00a0 It was a\u00a0brisk morning (32\u00b0F according to the G6), but the skies were clear and the sun was shining on the mountain.\u00a0 No one else was around yet.\u00a0 Lupe and SPHP enjoyed the silent majesty of the scene.<\/p>\n

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Mount Edith Cavell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The mostly ice-filled melt pond at the base of Mount Edith Cavell. This was as close as Lupe was allowed to get according to signs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"An<\/a>
An arm of the Angel Glacier hangs down from Mount Edith Cavell.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"Angel<\/a>SPHP knew that it wouldn’t be long before people would start coming.\u00a0 Since Lupe wasn’t permitted to explore any of the additional trails,\u00a0all too soon it was time for Lupe and SPHP to start back down the valley to the G6.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
A look N back down the valley from Mount Edith Cavell.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Lupe<\/a>
Lupe on the Mount Edith Cavell trail.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From Mount Edith Cavell, Lupe and SPHP\u00a0went on\u00a0to Jasper, a pretty and busy little tourist town.\u00a0 Coming into town,\u00a0Lupe was very interested in 2 female elk with fawns standing right on the road!<\/p>\n

Since Lupe had been cooped up in the G6 much of the previous afternoon and all of\u00a0the evening,\u00a0SPHP knew she really needed a longer walk than she had at Edith Cavell.\u00a0 Along\u00a0the road to Pyramid Lake, SPHP found\u00a0a trailhead on the edge of town.\u00a0 Lupe and\u00a0SPHP spent\u00a0a couple of hours hiking trails No. 8, 6 & 6A.\u00a0 The trails made a loop\u00a0past a swamp and through the forest, eventually going past Patricia Lake.\u00a0 Best of all there were lots of squirrels in the trees to bark at!\u00a0 Lupe had an exciting time of it, although SPHP was a bit concerned about how noisy the Dingo was this close to town.<\/p>\n

Although there wasn’t much elevation change on this loop, near the end on trail No. 6A,\u00a0the trail\u00a0climbed a small hill with a clearing from which there was a nice view of Mount Edith Cavell\u00a0off in the distance.\u00a0 After having just been there, SPHP now recognized Mount Edith Cavell as the mountain frequently featured on postcards of the town of Jasper.<\/p>\n

During the rest of the day, Lupe got to spent a little time at the beach at Pyramid Lake near Jasper\u00a0and then enjoyed a scenic drive to Miette Hot Springs.\u00a0 At the picnic ground there, Lupe endured an hour of temptation, while a herd of 6 or 7 bighorn sheep panhandled from all the picnickers and bold squirrels did the same.\u00a0 Despite ineffective signs everywhere insisting that people shouldn’t feed the bighorn sheep, they were so tame and used to getting their way, people could pat them without them even backing away.<\/p>\n

However, when\u00a0the bighorn sheep\u00a0got too close to an excitable Dingo which barked furiously and lunged at them (restrained by a leash, of course), the bighorns did seem to think that was a bit rude.\u00a0 They gave the foamy-mouthed Dingo a wider berth for a little while, but kept forgetting the experience.\u00a0 The bighorn sheep had to be repeatedly reminded by the Dingo that they looked like\u00a0Dingo food.\u00a0 The squirrels only had to be told once, but chattered taunts and insults back from the safety of the trees.\u00a0 It was almost more than an American Dingo could bear.<\/p>\n

The picnic finally done, Lupe was relegated to the G6 for a while, during which time SPHP had a marvelous alternately relaxing, soothing\u00a0and invigorating\u00a0time at the Miette Hot Springs<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, which features a big hot pool, a big warm pool, and much smaller cool and frigid pools.\u00a0 All-day admission was only $6.05 Canadian for as long as one wanted to stay, an absolute bargain compared to anything else in the Canadian Rockies!\u00a0 Miette Hot Springs was fabulous!\u00a0 If\u00a0Carolina Dogs could have gone in the hot springs, Lupe and SPHP would have stayed there a couple of days.<\/p>\n

By evening Lupe and a much cleaner SPHP were back at Jasper again.\u00a0 Across a bridge over the Athabasca River from Jasper, Lupe and SPHP found a trail around nearby Lake Annette for an evening stroll.\u00a0 About 1\/4 of the way around the lake though, a couple with a baby in a stroller and a dog approached from the opposite direction.\u00a0 They said their dog had found and treed a bear cub just a few minutes earlier.\u00a0 Since momma bear was likely still around somewhere close at hand, and not likely to be entirely pleased with the situation, they were beating a hasty retreat to their vehicle.<\/p>\n

Bear hunting in the Canadian Rockies\u00a0sounded even more exciting than bighorn sheep hunting to Lupe.\u00a0 SPHP had to admit it would sound impressive to the folks back home.\u00a0 But the cowardly SPHP quickly overruled and headed for the G6 to end all possibility of a truly exciting end to the day and a\u00a0most memorable blog post.<\/p>\n

\"Edith<\/a>
Edith Cavell was a British nurse who lived in German-occupied Belgium during WW1. She indiscriminately helped save the lives of soldiers of both sides during the war. However, she also helped 200 allied soldiers escape to the Netherlands or England. For this she was found guilty of treason by the Germans and executed by firing squad. She never saw the mountain in the Canadian Rockies that was eventually named in her honor. The Indian name for the mountain translates as White Ghost.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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