What a whirlwind of mountain roadtrips these past 3 weeks has been! We love Jasper, and we really love how short of a drive it is for us to get there. This past weekend my husband was in Jasper on a climbing trip with a friend, and the weekend before was my friend's stagette there, and the weekend before that we stayed there with my family. I'm getting the blog caught up now, sometimes it's hard to even find the time to upload photos off my camera onto the computer after a trip before we are out the door and on to another! One afternoon during the weekend with my parents 3 weeks ago, my little family of three hiked to the Summit Lakes together.
Summit Lakes are about 5 km down the Jacques Lake trail. First you hike past Beaver Lake 1.6km in, then after another 3.2km the trees clear and you're left breathless staring at Summit Lakes and an amazing view of the mountains behind. It was at that point that Emery took off running to the water! She hiked the first km or so rocking her super sweet new sunglasses and then rode in the backpack on my back for the next 4km, chattering away about the creek to the right of the trail. She's super into "big water" and "fast water" these days, haha.
^^ family photo at Beaver Lake, taken by a fellow hiker fishing there ^^
^^ taking off running to Summit Lake ^^
^^ Dad found a lady bug way up in the alpines, so he is pretty much a super hero! ^^
^^ She passed out hard in the backpack on the hike out. My favorite! ^^
We had to quickly hike out and drive to the Jasper Park Lodge to make it in time for a war canoe race that my dad and his staff were entered in! My husband, brother and sister in law all joined the war canoe tournament and it was so fun!
This 10km hike makes a nice short day hike, obviously we had it squeezed in between other fun events. To hike the full Jacques Lake trail is a much longer (26 km) trip, one that we have done in a day before on May Long weekend 2014. So I guess technically this was Emery's second time at Beaver and Summit Lakes, but last time she was in utero!
xo.
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