Day 1, Edith LakeColin to Athabasca Falls Hostel Roche Bonhomme Ginsette Mtn. 0 km -Head away from the lake. 16 1.6 -@ the intersection, keep LEFT to Pyramid Pyramid Lake 16 Lake Sirdar head to Jasper Park Lodge. Mtn. Maligne Lake Road 2.5 -Passing Mildred Lake Edith Edith Lake 3.3 -Jasper Park Lodge. Patricia Lake Maligne Range Lake Canyon Hostel 3.6 -Pass barrier to ride on trail around Annette L. Patricia Malig Annette L. Lac Beauvert. Start ne RLake iver Trefoil 4.7 -Pass barrier onto Old Fort Pt. Rd. Mildred L. Edith Lake Lakes Jasper Mildred L. 6.1 -Cross the bridge over the Athabasca Lac Parking Lot Park JASPER Beauvert Lodge R. at Old Fort Pt. JASPER Lac 7.0 -Hwy93a junction. Turn LEFT. Beauvert 22.0 16 Medicine Lake Signal Turning right takes you into Jasper. 16 93 Mtn. Athabasca R. Old Fort Pt. 8.5 -Turn LEFT at Jctn. for Icefields Jasper Excelsior Hostel Whistlers Mtn. 93a Parkway (Hwy 93). Campground Mount 93 Tekarra 8.8 -Pass the tollgate Athabasca R. Wapiti 9.0 -Rd for Whistler’s campground & Campground The Closeup Jasper hostel on the right. Whistlers The Valley Whistlers Watchtowerof 11.0 -Wapiti Campground on the left. of Campground Five 93 Amber 13.9 -Jctn. of Hwy 93 A, stay on Hwy 93. Lakes 93 Start Mtn. 14.7 -Cross the Athabasca River Marmot Basin 93a 16.0 -Valley of the 5 Lake Trailhead Marmot 22.0 -REST STOP at Wabasso Lake Mtn. Wabasso Trailhead on the LEFT Lake Curator 93 Mtn. 31.5 -Lookout/pullout 31.9 -Lookout/pullout with view of Mt. Wabasso Campground Rest Stop Harvisty Wabasso Lake 34.0 -Horseshoe Lake picnic area, left Lectern Peak Trailhead 37.5 -Jctn. with south end of Hwy 93 A. The Athabasca Falls are here. The Edith Cavell Rd. 16.3 Aquila Mtn. 93 Falls are within walking distance of Athabasca Falls Hostel, your Franchere Peak destination for the evening. If you Mnt. Edith Chak Cavel want to get settled into the hostel 1st, Peak Hostel 93a Mnt. it is an easy walk back to the Falls. Cavel Horseshoe Hardisty L. Lake Leach 38.0 -Athabasca Falls Hostel turnoff on Lake Athabasca R. the Left. Angel 38.3 -Athabasca Falls Hostel Ph 852- Glacier Whirlpool Fire Rd. 5959 Mount Edith Cavell Athabasca Did You Know That... Falls Hostel Falls Whirlpool R. -Jasper National Park gets its name from Jasper Hawes, Athabasca Mnt. Kerkeslin who took command of the North West Company fur trading post east of Jasper National Park on Brule Lake Chevron Mtn. in 1817. The post became known as “Jasper’s House”. Mt. Kerkeslin Finish Campground The post was moved to a site on the Athabasca River Athabasca 93 near Jasper Lake in 1829, but the name stuck. -Jasper Park Lodge had humble beginnings as a tent city Legend Falls Hostel Goat Route on the shore of Lac Beauvert in 1915. Seven years later Rest Stop Viewpt. in 1922, the tents were replaced by 8 log cabins. Expansion continued the next year with additional cabinsM a Hostel l i and the original main building. In 1925, the world famousg n Campground golf course was opened. e R Picnic Site i -Large mammals you may see while riding through ve r Jasper National ParkHoneymoon include: -BlackAthabasca bears Riverand GrizzliesL. Campgd. - there are about 300 Lick Cr Honeymoon black bears in the park andLake 150 to 200 grizzlies. Osprey -Mountain Goats; often seenLake on Tangle Ridge or at Falls Resort Falls . Sunwapta 1400 . the salt lick S. of Athabasca FallsBuck Hostel. -Bighorn sheep; often seen on LakeTangle Ridge 1300 Falls Athabasca -Elk; often seen in Jasper townsite 1200 Jct 93a Hwy Fryatt Cr -Moose; seen near Hwy93a & Athabasca Falls 1100 The 23 metre high Athabasca Falls is one of the most Elevation (m) 1000 Sunwapta 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 spectacular waterfalls in Jasper because of the volume Mt. of water in the Athabasca River. TheFalls water pours over a 93 +4.1% +1.0% +1.0% Christie hard quartzite lip and has cut away at the softer Grade +0.7% -1.9% limestone beneath to create a “potholed” canyon. Start Athabasca Day 2 - Part 1, Athabasca Falls to Sunwapta River Viewpoint Falls Grade +0.6% +2.6% +1.0% Hostel -1.0% 1900 Mt. Kerkeslin Mt. Kerkeslin 1800 Campground 1700 1600 93 1500 Goat 1400 Mt 1300 Athabasca Falls Hostel Viewpt. M Unwin a l 1200 i Falls g n Elevation (m) e 1100 iewpoint R Jonas Creek Campground Sunwapta i Sunwapta River V ve 1000 r 0 10 45 Uysfran 5 15 20 25 30 35 40 50 55 Distance from Start of Day (km) Honeymoon Peak Athabasca River L. Campgd. Did You Know That... Lick Cr Honeymoon Rest Stop Lake Osprey Sunwapta Falls Mt . Lake -The Icefields Parkway from Lake Louise to Buck Mary Vaux Mnt, . Turnoff Jasper was begun in 1931 as a depression Lake Brazeau era work project. Over the next 9 summers workers using picks, shovels, horses and a Fryatt Cr few small tractors carved out a single lane Endless Chain Ridge Mnt. Sunwapta Henry MacLeodgravel road. For their labours, the men were paid 20 cents a day. Mt. Falls Bubbling Cornet Christie Sunwapta River Mtn. Springs Replica Peak 0 km -Follow dirt road out of the Hostel and turn left. Le 3.2 -Mt Kerkeslin Campground 5.6 -Goat viewpt & picnic area. Mtn. goats inhabit 93 22.6 the cliffs on Mt Kerkeslin. They often come Grand ek down to the natural salt licks below this viewpt re arden C 19.2 -Honeymoon Lake Campground W Pobokta n Catacombs Churchill Range Station 22.6 -REST STOP Mtn.on the Right at Sunwapta Falls Poboktan turnoff in front of the lodge. A 1.2 km return Mtn. detour down the branch road leads to the falls. Jonas Creek Brazeau “Sunwapta” is a Stoney Indian word meaning Campground “turbulent river”. Jonas Creek Rest Stop @ Mt. Sunwapta River 29.9 27.0 -Bubbling Springs picnic area. Mt Confederation 39.6 -Poboktan Creek Warden Station. Poboktan is Adam Joachim Viewpoint the Stoney Indian word for “owl”. 93 43.0 -The road cuts through a field of pinkish Gong Lake boulders created by a rock slide of quartz sandstoneFortress from the top of the ridge to the east Lake Gong 45.0 -Jonas Creek Campground. Glacier Legend -REST STOP @ Viewpoint for the Sunwapta Grizzly Creek Route 52.5 Mt. Sunwapta River and the Columbia Icefields in the Palmer Rest Stop Mt. Beauty Peak Hostel background. Viewpoint is on the Right and Nelson Creek Hostel Campground just before the bridge over Grizzly Creek. Picnic Site Day 2 - Part 2, Sunwapta River Viewpoint 52.5 -REST STOP @ Viewpoint for the Sunwapta Sunwapta River. Churchill RangeRiver Sunwapta Peak to Rampart Creek 56.0 -Beauty Creek Hostel Viewpoint Beauty Creek 11.2 61.8 -Road begins a steep climb Hostel Did You Know That... S 2 62.5 -Viewpoint for the Stutfield Glacier. Still u -The Columbia Icefields cover an area of 325 km , is n w 100 to 365 m in depth and receives up to 7 metres of climbing. a p Stanley t snowfall per year. 63.7 -Lunch at the Tangle Falls Rest Area on the a Falls Beauty Creek Mushroom R -Melt water from the Columbia Icefields flows to three i Right. Peak v r 7.8 e oceans: e r v T i 65.2 -Viewpoint for Sunwapta Canyon angle Ridge to the Pacific via the Columbia R River u a Afternoon 71.5 -Rest Stop @ the Icefield Centre on the to the Arctic via the Athabascae River & z a Peak MacKenzie River to the Atlanticr via the North Left. Information, exhibits and washrooms 93 B Saskatchewan River. are here. There is a short road to the toe of the -The 1st recorded discovery of the Columbia Icefields glacier. was by Norm Collie & Hermann Woolley in Aug. 18th, Rest Stop 72.8 -Columbia Icefield Campground Icefields 1898. These two mountaineers climbed to the summit of Mt. Athabasca and saw the plateau of ice. 74.2 -Wilcox Creek Campground entrance. Lunch Stop Centre 76.2 -Sunwapta Pass. Banff/Jasper boundary at @ Tangle Wilcox White Goat 21.2 elev. 2042 m / 6,675 ft. Stutfield Peak Nigel Wilderness Peak Falls Rest Area Peak Jasper Nat Park 79.6 -Hilda Creek Hostel 80.2 -Parker's Ridge Trail. 5 km round trip hike. Stutfield Columbia Icefield Wilcox Glacier Campgd. Creek 84.3 -Start of a steep descent. (-380m in 6.9 km) Twin Campgd. Towers Banf 85.1 -The Big Bend. Caution, sometimes you will Mt Sunwapta Kitchener Pass f Nat Park encounter cross-winds on this downhill stretch. Dome Glacier Hilda 88.1 -bottom of the steep downhill. Creek Snow Dome Hostel 89.2 -Another downhill stretch begins Parkers Ridge 92.7 -REST STOP at the Viewpoint for the Mt. Athabasca Glacier Cirrus Weeping Wall on the Right. Athabasca 16.5 Mtn. 103.5 -Viewpoint for Castelets. Visible just up the Jasper Nat Park 93 Alexandra River. (look back and to your right) f Nat Park Banf W 109.2 -Rampart Creek Hostel on the Left. Weeping Wall eeping Rampart Creek Campground on the right. Jasper Nat Park Columbia Rest Stop W Yoho Nat Park Saskatchewan Glacier all Icefield Coleman Lake Pinto Mt Lake Grade +1.0% +8.6% +2.4% -6.0% Sunset -0.6% -1.2% -6.4% -4.8% Coleman Pass 2100 North 2000 Mt. Saskatchewan 1900 Saskatchewan k Finish 93 e e 1800 r C Rampart iewpoint n 1700 Sunwapta River V a River m Riv r Creek Hostel Rampart Creek Hostel ndra er 1600 lexa o A N 1500 eiwpt.