May 23 Day 7 Jasper to Grand Prairie

We're over half way to Alaska.  Our odometer passed 2100 miles today.  We started the day early and went to Jasper for shopping (Linda and Diane) and coffee, danish, and blogging (Ken).  We then headed to the Jasper Skytram for a tram ride up 3000 feet to get a birds eye view of the Jasper valley.  Great views of the mountains, lakes and rivers.  Then it was on the road to Hinton for gas, lunch and supplies.  On the way we saw a heard of big horn sheep--boy are they agile on the rocks.  After lunch it was time to head north.  With Diana driving, we got our first serious rain of the trip. We got to our campground outside Grand Prairie at about 5:30 for an early stop and a luxury of a dinner downtown.  The days are definitely getting longer.  As I write this it is still daylight at 10PM.  Animal count for the day was 3 elk and 23 big horn sheep.  Mileage today was 286 miles.  Tomorrow we head for Dawson Creek and the start of the Canada/Alaskan Highway.  Wifi is going to be scarce for the next couple of days, so we'll post blogs as connectivity permits.