Banff National Park: Icefields Parkway Drive | EP 6

So I had my doubts on how pretty this lake actually is because you see photos and you see things on google and you always think oh photoshop that's obviously not real. Yeah it is pretty close to the real things I've been seeing on the google. What's up everybody. So I skipped a few days almost a week of filming. I'm currently now in Canada. I'm in beautiful Banff National Park and yeah I took a break because I wanted to edit a video. I wanted to recharge my personal batteries and here we are. So the last week I have been editing a really amazing cinematic video. It's really really cool. It's one of my best pieces of work I've ever done. I'm super excited about it. If you haven't seen it be sure to check out the description of this video or I'll put a link up here on one of the boxes that you can check it out. It's a super cool motivational inspirational type of video. I've never done anything like it before. It was so cool to try to do and try to come up with like this uh creative artistic approach to it. So it's really really neat. Had a lot of fun doing it and I liked it so much I'm gonna try and make another one for this trip. Anyway currently here in Banff National Park and yeah it is about 5-6 p.m. and tomorrow morning I'm going to go visit Lake Louise and the other lake that's there is very famous. We were going to go today. Unfortunately there's so many people here uh maybe because of the post-COVID pandemic thing. Everybody's trying to travel. There's just too many people. There was no parking space. The roads were closed. So getting up tomorrow morning maybe at 5-6 a.m. so we can actually check that place out by ourselves hopefully. But yeah it is a very touristy time of year uh here in Canada. So yeah I guess we'll see you guys tomorrow. So welcome to beautiful 6 a.m. here at Banff National Park and this is definitely the time to do this because there's nobody compared to what yesterday afternoon was which was a circus. So super cool. Views are absolutely epic and awesome. We're doing a bit of a hike today. Yeah really excited about there not being anybody here. So yeah definitely worth sleeping only five hours. Hiking in motorcycle boots is not fun. So one of the small aspects of things you don't think about about travel on a bike is how uncomfortable this is. So I had my doubts on how pretty this lake actually is because you see photos and you see things on google and you always think oh photoshop that's obviously not real. Yeah it is pretty close to the real things I've been seeing on the googles and definitely coming in here at six in the morning is a way to do it because yesterday we came by in the afternoon and there were just truckloads of people coming in. So this is Lake Louise and this is the famous and as you can see it is 8am and the people are starting to show up. So this is how it goes definitely 6am is the time to do it. That was Lake Louise. So now moving on to Jasper National Park and I can definitely tell you that the amount of people here has about tripled since we arrived. So yeah early again early morning. So currently getting breakfast. I got myself a little wrap here and yeah problem with these areas and these things is just so many people so literally took like 20 minutes just to get food but it's only food available for the next four hours so yeah that's the unfortunate part it is again it's like a theme park over here. So what gets really annoying about driving the bike is helmet on helmet off earplugs in mask on visor down it's just over and over again and it gets really when you're not having a really good day it's it's quite difficult. It's just the physicality to just do this every single day 12 hours a day you gotta be a little crazy a little dumb or masochistic on your end which means you like to suffer basically. So it's just so annoying you have to it's so crazy because sometimes you see a really great shot like the glacier behind me you stop you pull over then you put everything on takes forever and you go see something else and you're like oh two minutes ahead gotta take everything off again do the whole thing it's just a whole nightmare and then filming it and then getting the cameras out and then getting the big one and then getting the zoom lens and then doing pictures and then doing vertical video and then doing horizontal video for youtube it's a whole nightmare it's a whole production uh it's really annoying sorry that was my i'm mad at the world moment. So it's really awesome to go from beautiful lake to beautiful lake only problem is that they're every five minutes so you're basically on and off and on and off well the truth is every lake i see here is just so picturesque and the color really is what the reality is the camera colors a few things but i'm telling you that water is turquoise it's amazing wow check out this place it's so amazing look at that wow man this place keeps getting better and better by the moment so so amazing love it