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.
