Is This the Most Scenic Drive and Hiking in Canada?

rock hopper here and welcome to Alberta Canada our first stop Lake Louise Welcome to the Jungle this place is a zoo this is the zoo of all zoos right here trying to find parking this is Lake Louise Alberta [Applause] Canada it might be a little bit crowded here there's the Lake Louise Hotel I'm going for a little walk along the lake just to escape the madness and if you're looking for peace and quiet and Solitude don't come here in the summer you'll be very disappointed you can't really expect it to be any other way I suppose after all this place is advertised around the world and people do come here from all over the world to see this so it's very very popular I'm fairly high up now and you can see the lake Down Below in the pretty color and if you look to your left you can see the glacier through the trees there's a closer look at the glacier Lake Louise was crowded but it was pretty so now we're just heading up towards Jasper some big ice Fields out there this is called the ice Fields Parkway there's a shot of the ice Fields Parkway and a shot of the ice [Applause] Fields this is Bowl Lake that's a big wide open Vista right there huh really gorgeous mountains around here there's a scene almost everywhere you look here we're crossing the North saskatchwan River it's a new day with new sights the weather is gorgeous and I'm feeling all [Music] right whoa now we got to stop there's a waterfall up there it's way cool [Music] wow look at that waterfall check that out it's kind of streaming out there with the wind wow that waterfall is pretty cool I was the only person to even notice it and once people saw my car here they started looking at what I was photographing and they stopped talk about wide open expanses yeah that's nice gain in some real altitude now we're going up pass and it's a nice scenery over to the right there and yet another waterfall lot of them out here this place makes me think of a song by The Outfield it goes on my left to my right oh this is my Paradise doing a hike up the Parker Ridge Trail we'll see what's at the top and if there's a good view I'm hoping it gets us close to a glacier we're getting up here that's for sure hopefully the 2.4k walk will reward us with a good view we've got a good view and a view of the glacier not the glacier I was thinking about though but check out this View [Music] hey it's an Icelandic tree it reminds me of a joke of when I was in Iceland what do you do if you get lost in an Icelandic Forest stand up along an unofficial Trail now so hopefully it has some more rewarding views which I heard it does ah made it to the top and what a view wow it's beautiful up here look at this [Music] View there's the glacier I was looking for there's some people coming up way down there to the lower right look at the color in that water that little Lake I'm not the only one up here Dylan Jack and Jake just joined me yes and look at that backdrop I had a nice chat with these guys and videoed part of it and portions of our hike back down I didn't realize it at the time but the SD card was starting to go bad and about 10 video clips were lost to the ozone forever while they were being copied to the computer they already had computer issues before I even got into Canada my hard drive almost died and I had it replaced with a new solid state hard drive by this guy Steve at Computer Zen in Sam and Idaho but as soon as I did that I got locked out of my YouTube channel by Google and they kept trying to send me a verification number to my old phone that no longer exists it took them 30 days to verify me which is why you saw no new videos from me for over a month I asked the dad if Canadians took climate change seriously and thought it was happening he said that Canadians generally believed the climate was changing he said he had a friend who is an independent scientist studying climate change he said not to trust government studies or industry funded studies of climate and from what his friend told him he believed it was definitely happening the SD card still has 2,000 video clips of Canada on it that I have to try and figure out a way to get them on my computer they play on the camera but not my computer computer doesn't recognize them and says there's nothing there digital photography is the most unstable unreliable infallible medium I've ever worked with add to all that a battery that turned out to be defective after only a few months which prevented me from working in the back of my rig at night so I had to always have a plugin which really hindered my ability to create videos well that was a great hike with one of the best views I've seen in a long time so we're leaving B National Park and we're going to enter Jasper National Park and here we've got the Continental Divide where the water's here go to the Atlantic and the waters on this side go to the Arctic Ocean I just had another hike and I'm going to show you something literally that's very very cool this is the Columbia ice field Glacier Ice Ice Baby and yes it is very cool I mean you know it's ice Maybe the cool place in the park what makes this place so cool it's something called catabatic winds high density air from a higher elevation is carried downward by gravity cold dense air sinks and rushes down over the ice and that wind can be many degrees cooler than the air above the surrounding lands climate change you make the call icelanders be like yeah that's an average size Glacier [Music] buggy [Music] fantas Mundo awesomeness another huge waterfall pouring off a [Applause] glacier it doesn't even look real here sometimes about 99 in the evening is when the mountains really get their glow [Music] on looks like that was once a little Warden station or some housing for somebody it's actually pretty chilly this morning first stop of the day off to Sun WAP to Falls so let's go check it out it's been a little over a kilometer and we're just getting close to the lower Falls now can you hear the Roar and now for the Upper Falls I thought I'd be farther along in my journey at this point but the beauty of this place just keeps drawing me in and it's done it again let's go check out honeymoon Lake and see what that is here's your honeymoon Lake honeymoon Lake's not too shabby e here in honeymoon Lake you can get get a free fish pedicure and it tickles here in the Canadian campgrounds they often Supply you with plenty of wood for your campfire the scenery just keeps coming [Music] wow I was told to check out at the basa Falls so let's do it now we're off to Horseshoe Lake where I've heard you can jump off cliffs into the lake well it appears to be true hey I just met these fun people right here they gave me a beer and they're going to do a shotgun we're going to jump off cliffs let's do [Applause] it one two three go go woo and if you don't want to dive off the cliffs or jump well maybe you would like to climb them got two good [Music] [Applause] job [Music] the town at the top the ice Fields Parkway is Jasper originally Jasper was a post established by Hudson Bay Company and Northwest company in 1907 the government protected the area as Jasper Forest Park just as Canada's second transcontinental rail line was going to pass through and Foster the Hamlet of fitzu the Town grew and was renamed Jasper for one of the post's managers and Voyager Jasper Haw and soon the town welcomed Adventure seeking tourists and those looking to discover the beauty of the region just as it does today that's got to be the nicest Circle K I've ever seen this is the only bear I've seen in Canada so far there'll be more of my travels through Alberta coming up but this pretty much ends it for this video I hope you enjoyed traveling Alberta Canada's ice Fields Parkway with me don't forget to give me a like on the video share and subscribe until next time this is Rock hoer I'll see you