On the final day of our Northern Alberta tour, we traveled along Highway 93 south, known as the Icefields Parkway. It’s a 232 km (145 mile) stretch of double-lane highway winding along the Continental Divide between the Towns of Jasper and Lake Louise. We traveled at a leisurely pace, stopping along the way to take…
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On the Road to Jasper
Day 3 of our travels to northern Alberta took Bob and me from Peace River to Jasper, a 6-1/2 hour drive with some brief stops along the way. The first stop came on Highway 2, as we approached the village of Brownvale. An abandoned farm caught our eye as we drove by it and we…
Peace River and Surroundings
This is the second of four blogs I’ll be posting, featuring my favourite photographs from a recent road trip to Peace Country in Northern Alberta. It includes photographs from the Town of Peace River as well as pictures from the nearby surroundings. This is a scene we encountered on our arrival at Peace River. It…
Northern Alberta Road Trip
Last week, Bob Bear and I set out on a four-day road trip into scenic northern Alberta, north and west of Edmonton. Our prime destination is an area known as Peace Country, an aspen parkland region centring on the Peace River. It extends from northwestern Alberta to the Rocky Mountains in northeastern British Columbia. Our first…
Castlegar Bridges
We’ve recently returned from a visit with our son, Jon and his family in Castlegar, British Columbia. While I was there, I was able to get a few photographs, including the subjects of this post, a couple of bridges among the many in the area. Castlegar is located at the confluence of the Kootenay and…