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When we got up in the morning the showers were so far away you nearly had to pack a day pack. It was also one of those showers that you had to push the button every 50 seconds to keep the water going, Grrr. So any warmth that had been accumulated from the shower soon wore off by the time you reached the tent. Off to explore Jasper town we went. It was really cool and just what I expected, nice and small. We did a bit of shopping and looked around. I bought a snazzy water bottle/bag for hiking. We then drove off to Lake Edith for lunch. It was a very pretty lake. After lunch we went to do check out Malign Canyon. It is a very deep (51 m at it deepest) and narrow canyon, with a creek flowing through it. It was a nice little surprise. Now it was time to do a decent hike. Well Jutta took a right instead of a left and 20 minutes later we ended up at Medicine Lake. As you can see the journey was not a total waste of time.
Once we had our bearings sorted we headed for our hiking destination in the Valley of the five lakes. Sounds very Indiana Jones eh ? In all, we did the approx 10 km hike in about 3 hours. It was a spectacular walk. The lakes were beautiful and each one had a different colour to it. There were some very scenic views and we did not get eaten by a bear. Well with a half an hour to go it started to hail, actually it was like they were raindrops that had just frozen on the way down. They were about 2-3mm in diameter and did not tickle when they hit you. So now we had completed the grand slam of weather. We had been snowed, rained, sleeted and hailed on. Talk about variety. So after buying more booze we had dinner and drank a few brewskis around the fire.
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