Day 6: The Ice Fields.

Start Takagaw Falls, Alberta CAnada

End LaSalle Lake Near McBride/ Prince George B.C.

461 kms (286 miles)

Total distance to date 3014 kms (1872 miles)

The road from Banff to Jasper is 230kms through an area called The Ice Fields and as you can imagine, it gets rather chilly up there. I was glad that I had prepared for this trip as today really felt like an adventure. It was cold and then it was wet.

Sort of.

It rained all the time we were putting on our rain gear. Then the sun came out, so we started taking it off. Then it rained some more, until we put it all back on and then it stopped. Bloody hell weather, make up your mind, you are like a dog at the back door.

I am not sure how much I can write about Triumphs and mountain roads. I did take some pictures though. Of course, the pictures do not do the place justice. Every bend in the road reveals a new wonder. We stop all the time to take pics but we ride past many more vistas and photo opportunities. This place is vast. We are covering over 300 miles a day and the landscape just keeps rolling by, taking our breath as we crest each ridge.

The afternoon was spent with more riding and more ridiculous scenery as we came out of the mountains heading west towards Prince George, back into British Columbia. Eventually we found a lovely little camp site at LaSalle Lake where we grilled up some yummy cow and corn and sat by the fire for some stimulating conversation about the existence or non existence of god and Chris blowing my mind with sciencey things.

With an expectation of a rainy night, we drifted off to the land of nod.