Now you are talking about a beautiful trip, at least, if I am understanding that you're suggesting that if someone came up to buy the truck, and then swung west to Jasper, and then down south to Banff, they would have a spectacular trip. I grew up 40 minutes from Jasper in a place called Hinton, Alberta, and spent my entire youth in the mountains of Banff and Jasper National Parks. The drive from Jasper to Banff through the mountains has been voted one of the top 10 most beautiful drives in the world on some international travel magazine, and having driven it literally hundreds of times, it still takes my breath away every time I go. For anyone coming up from the south to buy the truck, on the way up to Edmonton, go through northern Idaho, drive up the road called "Rising to the sun" (I think that is what it is called), and then keep going north to Waterton National Park, another breath-taking place, then keep coming north through Calgary and finally Edmonton. (yes, Edmonton is WAY up north, although if you look at a map of Canada, Edmonton is just a small place way down south in Canada!) Although we did just get dumped on by about 5 inches of fresh snow last night......and then after someone buys my truck, drive west through Jasper and then south to Banff and wherever they have to go back to the US. It REALLY is a beautiful trip, and Alberta itself is a beautiful province, quite varied, geographically anyways, to see in Canada. And the air is pretty darn clean! Some guy here in Edmonton has a business where he goes to Banff National Park, sucks in a whole whack of air into some truck-mounted device, cans the air, and is now selling it in China! Yes, that is how fresh the air is out in the Canadian Rockies.....pretty darn awesome to say the least! Just my 2 cents worth. I know most of the whole western side of Alberta like the back of my hand having grown up there, and there is a lot to see. A lot of places that just aren't found on Internet forums.....but I've got them locked away in my brain. Did I mention that I canoed from Rocky Mountain House (in west-central Alberta) to Montreal during the summer of 1980 in a 17 foot canoe with a friend, recreating the original trip of the North West Company, from their farthest post west (Rocky Mountain House) to their headquarters in Lachine, QC, now part of Montreal? Well, that is a story for a whole other thread......not really even for this web site....but it was a fun 5000 mile canoe trip.....sigh......youth.......it's always wasted on the young!
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. What an awesome place you’re describing. It’s been 27 years, but I’ve been all through the areas around Banff and Jasper. Absolutely beautiful. And a great deal on a truck as well!
