“You should get the yearly park pass” – The park ranger at Jasper National Park welcomes us to the beginning of our journey through the Canadian Rockies… Going into the park center of a Canadian or US national park and paying for the park pass is an almost religious ceremony… My admiration towards the way these countries handle and protect natural areas falls into frustration whenever I’m faced with the reality we have back home…

Our three day stay in Jasper can be described in two words: cold and rainy… As Henrique says: “We have some issues to settle with Jasper”… So there goes another place to our already big list of “come back to places”…

For some time I’m to uncomfortable and worried about the five stitches and the pain in my left foot and the effects they can impose to my pictures that I forget that usually these are the weather conditions that bring me to life… I finally come back to myself on a cold mooring while waiting for the light in front of a glacier… The light never came, but I got back to the usual mind set of feeling that the cold wind and the silence of a mountain bring peace of mind even if we do not get nice looking pictures...