Category: Icefields Parkway

Saturday was intended to be an inside day catching up on paperwork, but it didn’t work out that way. Just before 08:00, the kids left for Edmonton, en route to Maui. With the wind chill officially at -49°C (-56°F), Maui sure sounded like a good idea to me! Here’s...

I got home at noon yesterday, but the blog is still back on Monday, when I drove the Icefields Parkway (see map). One Icefields Parkway website summarizes the experience perfectly: “To travel the Icefields Parkway is to experience one of Canada’s national treasures and most rewarding destinations. Stretching 232km...

My plan yesterday was to reach my daughter’s in Airdrie (a few miles north of Calgary) by noon, so I was away from the Mount Robson Inn at 05:30. The last time I was on the Icefields Parkway was about 1970, so all I really knew about it was...