{"id":240,"date":"2014-05-26T21:03:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T04:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/?p=240"},"modified":"2014-05-26T21:03:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T04:03:24","slug":"lake-louise-columbia-icefield-jasper-national-park-rv-day-8-sun-may-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/?p=240","title":{"rendered":"Lake Louise, Columbia Icefield &#038; Jasper National Park (RV day 8 : Sun May 25)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">In the morning, we stopped by Banff town for some breakfast at McDonalds and a nearby shop for beaver tail shaped fried pastry called a &#8220;beaver tail&#8221;. Yay for free Wifi at McDonalds!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Then we were off for a long day of driving. Our first stop was Lake Louise, which was mostly frozen. (It looks nothing like the postcard!) After being cold for a while, we walked though the public areas of the nearby Fairmont hotel and returned to the RV. Our next stop was the Columbia Icefield Centre, from which one can see at least 5 glaciers with the naked eye. The company running the centre also offered tours that drive out onto the glacier in a bus (which looked pretty cool) and something called a glacier skywalk (which seemed less fun). We declined to participate in either activity as we still had a lot of driving to go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Around 20:00, we arrived at our campsite, Whistler&#8217;s Campground in Jasper National Park. It&#8217;s a long walk to Jasper town. However, there is a big RV parking lot just outside of town on the other side of the train tracks on Highway 93A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the morning, we stopped by Banff town for some breakfast at McDonalds and a nearby shop for beaver tail shaped fried pastry called a &#8220;beaver tail&#8221;. Yay for free Wifi at McDonalds! Then we were off for a long day of driving. Our first stop was Lake Louise, which was mostly frozen. (It looks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}