Vacation in Alberta - Day 4

We stopped first at Bow Summit, on the 386-mile round trip, from Canmore to Jasper.Mountains reflected by turquoise lakes dotted the roadsides on this windless blue-sky morning.Besides elk, that were too quick for my camera skills, mountain goats were the only other large wildlife we spotted.We stopped at Sunwapta Falls for a snack break.We explored the short trails at Athabasca Falls.Clouds began to form in the afternoon.We saw the famous Columbia Ice fields, the source of our mighty Columbia River.This is how I always expected the Rocky Mountains to look, magnificent and forbidding, and going on for hundreds of miles.A couple of showers sprinkled us in the afternoon,then rewarded us with a bright rainbow.I took pictures all day, until the light faded, and we made our way back to Banff, and then Canmore for the night.
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