Today I planned to go out to Pyramid Lake. Beforehand, I went down to the Marmot Basin store to make my bookings for the trip tomorrow to the ski resort as I had booked a lesson in the morning. On the way back from the store to the Inn, I took a few photos.

The second photo is of the Information Centre, and gives details of it being built in 1914, being of local construction materials, and how because it was the first of its kind, it helped define the character of future Jasper buildings.

I then ordered a taxi out to Pyramid Lake. There were some family fun events on at the lake today, outside the Pyramid Lake Resort. This included dog sled rides, sleigh rides, ice skating on both a rink and a circular track, a skiing track, and some fat bike races on bike trails.

Herewith a panoramic photo of the Pyramid Lake scene.

There were 4 or 5 dog sleds with 6 dogs each, plus they had another 10-12 dogs “on the bench” to swap the dogs in and out from the different sleds.

I went on one of the dog sleds, and got some video of it through my GoPro. It was good fun. Afterwards, I hired a fat bike and went cycling. I tried the bike out on Patricia Lake, about 1km from Pyramid Lake, but the snow was too soft for the bike, even with its fat wheels. So I went down a couple of lanes and rode around different spots for two hours.

These are the fat bikes, and one of Patricia Lake.

I then went back to the resort and grabbed some photos of ice sculptures and also two wooden sculptures outside the resort. They look really great up close and certainly something like I’d like to be able to carve but on a smaller scale.

I then headed back to the resort and jumped into the pool, spa and sauna for 15 minutes each and went back to my room. The bus for Marmot Resort was leaving at 8am (relatively early since I haven’t been getting up before 9am on this holiday), so I went to bed a little early (10pm). I have no idea how I’m going to get up at 6.30am for work when I start back!!