On our way out to Edmonton we stopped in Jasper to hike the wildflower meadows near Mount Edith Cavell. Before we got to the meadows we spotted some small furry friends (Pika) collecting grasses to their holes in the moraines.
They were patient with all the hikers interrupting their work.
There were others out and about in the morning as well (maybe a Columbian ground squirrel).
The really small ones were out looking to steal things from the unsuspecting hikers and unfortunately likely handfed.
There was one real large one, we think it’s a Hoary marmot. It stayed further away along the moraine the whole time and only stalked by the photographers on the trail.
It seemed to be looking for something, but we don’t know if it every found what it was looking for.
