On Miriams Mound....

Chris on the top of 'Miriams Mound'

(Being a 16 year year old he of course found this hilarious and made numerous comments about being on Miriams Mound -comments which made his 14 year old brother snigger...so we of course took this picture of him and called him the nipple on Miriams Mound....):

Laurence with the cache that we found at Miriams Mound:

We followed the exact same trail back to the car BUT on the way back out we came across these fresh prints.  They were HUGE - much bigger than a dogs!!! Not sure what they were from but there have been numerous reports of wolf sightings in the area lately....probably not but not sure......any thoughts what animal they are????  I don't think they are bear prints as they are the wrong shape....and far too big to be a normal dog...we didn't see anything but we wonder if anything saw us ;)  There was a LOT of fresh animal poop along the trail of all shapes and sizes so we knew there was all kinds of animals in the area - it was a beautiful trail!  We didn't see anyone else around at all:

Can you see the bridge in the far distance??  (click on the picture to enlarge it if you like) It is where the road is and where we left our car to walk to Miriams Mound to find the geocache!!  At the far end of the lake.  Miriams Mound is the name given to the KAME  (a cone shaped pile of stone left by a glacier) by the couple who put the cache there - they named it after their Granddaughter.  

The view from the top of the Kame was amazing - but it was very high and very narrow on the top and the boys were threatening to push me off!!!  Lol:

The bridhe where the car was parked, that you can see from the kame above:

Walking the trails around Athabasca Falls...

One tree had fallen across the trail and was the perfect height to make a great tunnel for Sam to walk under:

and for Abby to hang from:

Lloyd threw a big stick into the river and we watched it go down the river:

We ran down to the top of the Falls and watched our stick tumble down the falls:

Athabasca Falls...

Part frozen, part flowing - TOTALLY beautiful!!!

We've been here several times in every season and it's always stunning!!!

Fascinating to read all the information boards around the site too!!

Wheeeeeeeeee!!!!

Play clothes?

On the fence...

iphone snapshots.....

The only bear we saw was this one outside a souvenir store - we asked in the information office and were told no bears have been seen yet this year - they are normally first seen from mid March but one have been reported yet....very odd considering this year has been VERY mild in Jasper - much milder than normal!!  I blame Lloyd - I never see them when I'm with him - always when he isn't around!!

Typical tourist shot - someone complained that we were looking like tourists - my point was that we WERE tourists... ;)

Posing outside the candy store:

suicidal dog (looked like it was going to jump lol):

Don't think Abby was wanting to be in this one:

Geocaching in Maligne Canyon

The stunning frozen waterfalls - Chris offered to climb over to take a closer picture - I declined his offer - there were plenty of footsteps in the snow and ice showing that many others had climbed over before - the canyon is popular amongst ice climbers and they even do many official ice walks here every day organized by the wardens - I would LOVE to do one of those one day!!!

Getting VERY close to the cache!!  Laurence and Chris were on the geocache app on the iphone:

Lloyd and Abby using the gps:

Susie with the cache!!!

The 150ft deep canyon:

Scenes from Jasper National Park....

Dear deer....

Not bothered at all by us:

Camouflaged: