Snow

 At around midnight last night I woke and couldn’t hear any rain for the first time in more than 24hrs. Content with that good news, I dozed back off to sleep only to wake to Annie exclaiming “Holy shit it’s snowing!’. It is 19th June, 2 days away from the summer solstice and snow continued to fall until about 11.00am.

Our campground and van were covered in deep soft snow and when we finally got our act together and drove into town it snowed all the way. We had planned to drive south into Banff National Park today but clearly this would not be a good idea now. So, we fell back to our standard operating procedure when unsure of what to do and sat in a diner and ate a lovely hot breakfast of french toast and pancakes while we gathered our thoughts and watched the snow continue to fall.

So, we will now stay in Jasper today and drive to Lake Louise tomorrow, weather permitting, rather than split it into 2 days as previously planned. Luckily there is room at the inn. Max temp today has been 3 degrees.