Jasper to Lake Louise bike/camp trip 2011

This is easily one of the most beautiful bike tours in the world.

My fiance and I got married in Winnipeg on August 21, 2011. Shortly after that, we were off to Jasper, prepping our bikes at 9:30am on August 25, ready to head out on a multi-day cycling-camping tour through the mountains.

Overall, we had a beautiful bike tour. The roads were in very good condition (there were maybe 3 shady patches along the entire stretch of 230 kilometers!), the motorists all gave us a wide berth (and cheered for us on occasion), and the scenery was both breathtaking and humbling. The campgrounds offered, at a bare minimum, clean potable water, clean outhouses, food lockers (for storing food away from bears), bear-proof trash bins and free (if sometimes damp/wet) firewood. Bigger campgrounds even had hot showers and electrical outlets, but we didn't go to any of those.

At the end of the trip, we finished at Lake Louise, 81 kilometers short of our goal (we had originally planned to go all the way to Canmore), but we didn't regret the circumstances.

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[wagonman01]

@ThreeWheelJourney Thank you! You've got quite the bike video collection yourself! :)

[ThreeWheelJourney]

really nice camera work on this vid!