Road Trip

Here is a map of my current Thanksgiving weekend jaunt through Banff national park.
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Click on this picture to see the area snapped from Google Maps' satellite imagery. The general route is Calgary > Banff > northwards > east to Edmonton > south to Calgary.
To get a sense of scale, Calgary to Edmonton is about 300km; Taupo to Auckland.




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At a lookout south of Jasper; northeast-ish on the map. Elevation: 3,174 metres above sea level.










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Most of the time, the scenery looks like this.








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This raven was mad. And big. About the size of a duck.










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Banff street view.

Being daytime, all antipodeans currently in bed with cold compresses on their foreheads.