Day 5 - April 25 - I WAS BORN IN A SMALL TOWN

I was up early, no surprise there, and was greeted in a wonderful way. Mountain sunrises are not always glorious because the sun gets pretty high by the time you see it. Today was different - it came up in a splendor of colour.

The Big Foot Trail in Valemount loops around part of the village including historic Main Street and 5th Avenue downtown. There are plenty of benches and interpretive signs along the way. Although it is close to a 5 kilometre trail, it's level and well surfaced. The morning temperature of 2 degrees was perfect in the sunshine.

It truly is a small town, one in which I could see myself living.

After lunch we set out on a futile adventure but I knew there would be some pretty scenery along the way. Known by some as the Hawaii BC hike, the Aloha Trail highlights world-class waterfalls, lush forests, views of glaciers, waterfall mist and great photo ops. We knew we were not going to see any of that but it was a rough drive and we were up to that. I should have read the whole report. An avalanche in early April had closed the trail but the road in had also been rendered impassable...but what a beautiful drive...until it wasn't.

It became very evident as we approached the avalanche site.

I'm sure we would not have made it in or out on this last 2 kilometres of the access road.

Apparently disaster has been courting us for the last two days. upon returning back to the hotel we learned from a friend and online that a slide had closed the road at Mount Robson just after we passed through yesterday and today the highway out of Jasper has been closed, also from a rock slide. We must be doing something right.

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