The afternoon activity was to take a ride on the Jasper Tramway. The tramway is a cable car that terminates at a lodge near the summit of The Whistlers.
The high point on the ridge (above) is the summit, 100m higher than the lodge. You can hike up there without too much trouble, but it we were a bit short on time to make the last car.
Needless to say, the views from the top are fantastic! The photo below is the Western aspect & is almost entirely in British Columbia.
Roughly centre of the snow capped peaks above is the the summit of Mt Robson some 40kms away. With the zoom lense I was able to take the photo below. The skies are rarely clear enough to see the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies & to be able to take a crystal clear shot like this was down to pure luck with the weather. Mt Robson has a nasty habit of attracting clouds.
Looking north east along the valley toward Hinton (& Edmonton) you can see Pyramid Mountain & at its foot, the two lakes we had visited that morning.
To the right of the lakes (& just out of the above photo) is the Jasper town site (below) flanked by the Athabasca River & a number of sizable lakes.
The South West aspect looks down the Icefields Parkway & we could even see the Valley of Five Lakes.
We didn't want to go, but the tramway was only going to run for another 30 minutes.
Tong-master Shane (above, hard at work at the BBQ) put on a bit of a barbeque & invited a few people around. It was all very civilised & the weather even played nice with clear skies & warm weather. We even had to put up the umbrella to stop us getting sunburnt! Calgary didn't get much of a summer this year so the locals were impressed that we'd bought the sunshine with us from Australia.
I say Shane put on a bit of a barbeque.... That might have been a bit of an understatement. He put on a proper gourmet spread. He had Laura & Kerri helping him with preparation. The stuffed chicken breasts (below) were his masterpiece. Nobody went hungry or dissatisfied.
I only have a few minutes to get organised before the sun started to make its presence known. The pinks & oranges early in the morning help photographers the world over & Lake Louise is no exception. 
Within 20 minutes the show was over (below). It's still pretty spectacular without the pink light.
One last stop for a photo of Castle Mountin (with blue sky behind it at last!) before the hour or so drive back to Cowtown (Calgary).
After a couple of hours of down time at Shane & Laura's place we headed to Limericks to meet up with some of our Canadian friends. There were some missing faces that night, but it was a pretty good turn out considering. There was a lot of catching up done over quite a few drinks. We miss our Canadian friends.
Our drive from Yoho National Park took a detour from Hwy 1 along the Bow Valley Parkway in order to avoid the road works & hopefully spot some animals. We were in luck (I guess). We saw a couple of mule deer buck (above).
Haven't done a couple of the sights it was time to do the oblagitory shopping for souvenirs in Banff's main street. My favourite! 
Sorry. The photo looks better without a box head blocking the view....
From the lookout we drove around beside Vermillion Lakes. It's a shame the weather wasn't a bit clearer because the autumn colours were everywhere. Unfortunately the photos just ended up a bit drab but OK.
The weather was cloudy with a few spots of rain but we were determined to walk around Emerald Lake. En-route to the lake we stopped briefly at Natural Bridge (above). We've been there a few times before & the Kickinghorse River seems to have a different mood each time. We've seen the water anything from milky grey when it's a raging torrent to the blue relative tranquility on this day. Having taken the tourist shot (above) it was time to excercise the arty long exposure settings on the camera (below).
The fall colours were out in a big way in the mountains, but mainly the yellows. The Emerald lake seemed to have more plants with the rich red leaves & berries. 
The quaint town of Field is more a rail head than anything else but also has some craft shops & boutique lunch/coffee shops.
This was the first time we'd seen the berg lake at the foot of the glacier frozen over (below). The floating bergs were still there but were locked in by the ice sheet.
Our most successful hunting ground in the past has been Maligne Lake road. It's always been better in the mornings, but we thought we'd give it a shot. Not a thing. Not even an elk. There was lots of traffic, so no surprises there. We did see a few pikas (above) at Medicine Lake.
Our second plan was to head along the highway toward Hinton. We got as far as the Miette Hot Springs road having seen nothing so we turned around & headed back to Jasper. About half way back we found a mob of Rocky Mountain Sheep (above). They're no smarter than your garden variety domestic sheep & have no road sense what so ever.
Right on sunset the scenery took on a different look including the rise of the full moon.
