12 vii 06: Kelowna to Bowen Island

raw notes from my pocket journal:

up and packed 6 am
another excellent night's sleep
I TAUGHT AN ENGLISHWOMAN TO WEAR WOOL SOCKS [and gave her a pair!]

12 VII 2006 Nearing the end.

DESMOND HUGH CARR our driver [his e-mail in his hand]

Le cho: good morning in Cantonese
450 km today 8;40 leaving Kelowna
floating bridge -- longest in Can. pontoon bridge 2100 ft
3.3 ft per metre

FIRST STOP is in MERRITT
Nicola Valley -- heavily forested.
sign: GORMAN: New forest
planted 1980, harvested
1978

9.25 CASCADES FOREST DISTRICT
10:04 arrive Merritt

Clumber Spaniel
excellent samosa & tamarind chutney at snack shop $1.50

10:35 home of the Merritt Mountain Music Festival
3rd weekend of July

MICROPORE TAPE for 1st aid kit

Coquihalla Valley 10:50 am
approaching Coastal Range

DAVID GREY Babylon

11:10 in amongst foothills of snow capp'd mts again.
COQUIHALLAH TOLLBOOTH 11:20

[very shaky; written while bus was moving] great rocks! Coquihalla Valley

11:52 am Coquihalla Canyon PP Othello Tunnels

12:30 leaving tunnels
clouds concealing
mountain tops
cool breeze
two shirts and a spray deck
and still cool.

2 p.m. leaving LK LAWKAWA

Corinna Leung [a fellow traveler; her e-mail in her hand] Nurse originally from Hong Kong, now living in Australia.

My desire and your monkeyKorean dance beat

2:12 entering Fraser River Valley

It will widen out as we go and probably piss rain down upon us -- DHC

2:33 entering Chilliwack
DHC used to live near here -- was a competition sky diving place across the street -- story of the crash -- 15' of aviation-fluid-saturated soil in the front yard plane crashed between two tents

Abbotsford 2:58 p.m. "The Buckle of the Bible Belt"

Natural Escapes
Terry's Kayaking Operation

Desmond Carr
3:45 p entering outskirts of Van
IKEA in New Wesminster or Coquitlam is largest in world
NEW WESTMINSTER "The Royal City" was once provincial capitol --
4:19 p at Burrard & Georgia waiting for 427 pm #257 Horseshow Bay Xpress bus to Ferry. 5:35 Ferry $3.25 fare
4:32 on bus -- commodious compartment for backpack & gear -- double bus 4:44 Lion's Gate bridge
5:06 arrive Horseshoe Bay Ferry $7.70

In terminal at Horseshoe Bay WAITING ROOM A Coca-cola Dasani machine two Telus phone kiosks, a telus card dispenser, another coke machine a snack machine, yet another coke machine, a change machine, a coffee machine women's room, men's room water fountain waste bin -- chrome [labels on sketches:] galvanized bin for newspapers two recycling bins waste bin

along window one security camera bank of ten joined seats then a bank of five then 3 more banks of five down center of room
5:27 steady rain
terminal is filling up
5:32 on ferry looking out to Bowen.

11 vii 06: Revelstoke to Kelowna

Image: go-karting
raw notes from my pocket journal:

Steve Halstead works as a production engineer -- examining, correcting production lines & equipment.

8:30 leaving Same Sun in Revelstoke MAGIC CARPET RIDE -- Steppenwolf?
9:00 three valley gap -- ghost town

11
JULY
2006
Tuesday
[in margin beside drawing of traffic barrier] roads close periodically in winter so avalanches can be triggered with howitzers and then cleared

STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU Clowns to the left of me Jokers to the right

GRIFFIN LAKE 9 am
www.indostry.co.uk 9:09
Faerie glamour akin to LOVE

Lime int he coconut
9:24 we arrive at the GO KARTING TRACK
9:46 the racers come off the track
10:02 leaving GO KARTS now on for ICE CREAM.
1014 entering SICAMOUS [arrow drawn to * below]

Okanagan towards Salmon Arm and Kamloops very like 324 along Juniata

"Houseboat Capital of Canada" [* arrow from above and another down to * below]

MOUNTAIN EQUIPMENT COOP A--- is a member

salon culture is Saloon culture
10:39
along
MARA LAKE [arrow to ** below]

[arrow from * above to this note] FOR RENT for use on the SHUSWAP LAKE

[**] ("a little lake" sez Des, "you can see the other side")

shop and fence along 97A completely covered in hubcap

South ENDERBY Flea Market 10:55
tour guide insists on our buying CHEESY TACKY GIFTS for other members of the tour -- I told him "It's more than my heart can bear."

[full page drawing labelled "NEAR SICAMOUS across from D Dutchman Dairy 25 mins HB]

the run-down-ness of this middle country is painful compared with the high delights of Vancouver, Whistler, Banff.
Some people like flea markets and garage sales -- I find them anathema. I generally know what I want and need and seek it out, but the search is so intense at a flea market -- and so much so saddens me I simply can't stand it.
At a museum one might find much the same material, but the structure of a good museum (which the 1719 house is not) is such that one is distanced from the emotion, or the emotion is showcased and focused, In a flea market the emotion is omnipresent and uncontrolled. My reaction is to become saddened or to flee -- thus to me a flea market is a flee market.

I think I'm realizing that rather than being,as some have said, devoid of emotion that I am rather extremely sensitive [continued on next page after drawing]

[drawing of a clever paper-towel dispenser with label:] hinged piece of wood to hold hown the paper towel roll Enderby flea market

emotionally and that to protect myself I take on intellection

11;55 leaving flea market at Enderby
NOON 97A South RAIN
12:19
Vernon -- oldest town in BC interior used to be called Priest's Valley
ASLAN plumbing, electric, & heating [with a lion logo]
BUT is it TAME Plumbing?

1:08 in those perfect moments for which we would wish everything about ourselves to be clean and pure, we rarely have the freshest breath or the best smelling bodies, but we find that the strength of the experience of the moment washes away those flaws.
1:16 pm off to Kalamalka viewpt

Alexanders beach pub ran its sprinklers to drive us off the lawn at Kalamalka lake
1:29 leaving viewpoint

[record of a rhyme taught me by A--- upon seeing magpies:]
1 for sorrow 4 for a boy
2 for joy 5 for silver
3 for marriage 6 for gold

7 for a secret that's never been told

bernard & bertram crossroads safeway KELOWNA!
3;45 sign in to private room
WITH AIR CONDITIONING!

Off to Winery tour.

lakeshore Rd in Kelowna has quite a few Indian restaurants, bookstores, & giftshops

Snipes owns the winery -- totally organic
SUMMERHILL PYRAMID WINERY

EHRENFELSER White with reddish taste
CABERNET FRANC 5:00 back, shower, dinner, nap

[notes from a conversation with Stuart Cole]
GO TO GEORGIA ST perp to Burrard
RBC walk away from Burrard
toward tanley Pk on Water (north side) TWO BUSES -farther from Burrard
GIVE A CALL 257 express bus BLUE LINE or 250 slower
Hop on BOWEN
5:35, 6;35, 7:35, 935
$11.45

talked c Willow & Suzy -- Subaru clutch died; Cooper will be put down tonight.

HORSE DRIVER from AUSTRALIA Vanessa Lowden [her e-mail in her hand]

learning to play pool to bed 9: pm

10 vii 06: Leaving Banff

raw entries from my journal, many in a shaky hand -- jostling in the bus:

8:23 a.m. MONDAY 10 JULY 2006 I had hoped it would be raining as I left Banff and I got my wish. A--- and Ben left at 3:20 [a.m.] walking through the dark to the Greyhound Station before the moon rose above Rundle

FO MO -- a faux Mowhawk
BANFF NP -- Elk (2 in field)
9:20 JOHNSON CANYON FALL great bedding planes -- cave where fall came though 8 k yr a
10:00 back to bus

LAKE LOUISE HI -- very picturesque
10:44 am

TAKAGAW FALLS -- many caves

[drawing captioned] hoodoos in training

Des has to reverse every other switchback

The Main falls are from Mt Niles 2972 m
left falls area 12:35 pm

[drawing of rock structure] white more competent but folded band within grey bedding planes

1:02 pm we stop by the Kicking Horse River to pick up some women who went on a rafting expedition.

[drawing] avalache screens chain link

DAHL SHEEP? BIGHORN SHEEP?

1:13 mountain goats -- opinions vary -- v. pics.
above GOLDEN BC

1:20 at Husky Station W. of Golden, approaching thunderstorm

[boxed, checked] RECHARGE EVERYTHING
[boxed, not checked] POST CARDS

1:44 storm breaking
2:52 ROGERS PASS 640 fires currently in BC interior

MOUNTAIN HOUSE FREEZE DRIED FOODS featured in "Bears and Man" film at Rogers Pass Interp Ctr

[I don't know whether Mountain House exists any longer, but I experienced a tremendous wave of nostalgia when we were shown this film. It must have been shot in the first half of the 1970s and has clearly been shown too many times since then. Parks Canada might want to consider reshooting, or simply creating a new film, or perhaps do something else to persuade visitors that they need not waste their time looking for folks in '70s togs with frame packs and so on... well, maybe their time wouldn't be altogether wasted... Back in the day (1974-1980) my dad's notion of proper camping involved carefully determined quantities of Mountain House freeze-dried food. I can't argue with the efficiency of this -- all that one needs is a means by which to boil a kettleful of water, and the food, since it is sealed, is relatively odorless and therefore less of a temptation to critters, etc. Also it is quite light, and in some cases remarkably tasty (Mountain House was far superior in flavor to some other brands, so I certainly don't begrudge the bit of advert Mountain House got). But beginning in about 1980 I became a devotee of Kinmont and Axcell's Simple Foods for the Pack, and I haven't used freeze-dried for camping since. So seeing the old '70s Mountain House wind-cloud-snowflake-and-sun graphic tickled me.]

3:30 leaving Rogers Pass interp. Center
4:30 arrive @ revelstoke (3:30 Pacific time)
[boxed, checked] Ask DES @ what time we should arrive in Vancouver.

Meritt Mountain Music festival Merritt BC largest C&W festival in world. avoid campground "C" -- a free for all

TO BED AROUND 8:30 -- UP AT 6;45 best night of sleep since BOWEN Island!

[small drawing at bottom of page] Mt in Revelstoke from Same Sun [hostel]

9 vii 06: The World Cup

Raw entries from my pocket journal:

DRAGOMAN.CO.UK company 60% of the profits go into the communities in which the travel occurs

[drawing; caption:] Ben watching the World Cup finals
9 VII 06

ALEXANDER KEITH'S INDIA PALE ALE $4.95 at Tommy's = 6.00 with tip [okay, so that was a bit better tip -- not great, but better]

[another drawing of Ben]

A---'s fascinating fact 415: referees at a football match put in about 13-15 miles

RAIN in Banff left Underground after an hour, walked to hostel, made dinner, ate, walked back down, looked for A--- and BEN -- found them walking back out of town

GIDDY GOAT TOURS -- to Calgary from Banff

8 vii 06: The Second Attempt on Rundle

Raw notes from my pocket journal:

SATURDAY 8 VII 06 9;30 am
on Bridge above Swift River about to ascend Mt Rundle -- prophylactic Dr Scholl's moleskin
trailhead @ 10
treeline @ 1
two men we met on the mt turned back FERDOSH & SHAFIK
1;50 MA had to turn back -- Ben Ayling went on to Summit
2:35 BA reached summit
4:00 pm BOW RIVER

[sketch drawing covering a page, with the following labels:]
RUNDLE 8 VII 06
* Ben came this far
1 1/2 hr climb
* A--- came this far
10 min climb
* Ferdosh
* I came this far

30 min/ 45 min
to treeline

NOT TO SCALE

Lovely dinner -- steak & mushrooms salads (veggie burgers & mushrooms for me) at about 8 -- then attempt to sleep in fetid smelling room while 5th graders race about the hall -- [in margin 9 VII 06 SUN] up at 3, again at 4, again at 6, again at 8
reconciled accounts, withdrew $100 to cover the last few days

7 vii 06 Day Hike to Hoodoos

Raw notes from my pocket journal:

A--- had little sleep last night. Nightmare about serial killer who she knew but could not identify.

A question now is whether t go on with the Moose Run or to hire a car to go to Vancouver (an 8-hour drive) [at break-neck speed] -- if I did that I could stay through Monday, leave Tuesday, stay in Kelowna and then Weds stay with Stu

I will travel out with STEVE

[all entries below boxed but not checked:]
POSTAGE STAMPS
cards?
LUNCH
CASH
ACCOUNT BAL.
INFO ON CARS
INFO ON HOSTELS
MAPS
MOSIE REPEL.

[phone number for KATE]

HERTZ
$69/day for economy [Hyundai] Accent, Ford Focus
2 days 147.40 from AVIS
territory
sulfur sulphur

TO DRUMHELLER @ 3 hrs 30 min 268 km
HIGHWAY 1 TO
HIGHWAY 2 IN CALGARY
HWY 72 E/HWY 2A exit 295
to crossfield/ACME/Beiseker
0.9 km to bear right @ HWY 72 --
31 km to North Rd 1.6 km
HWY 9 - 11 km
16 AVE EAST 910 OUT OF CALGARY, TURN LEFT ONTO HWY 9 to Drumheller TO HWY 10 TO THE HOODOOS 8.5 km SE or Drumheller

[Following list all checked, no boxes]

BANANAS INSECT REPELLENT
MUESLI BARS CHOCOLATE
AVOCADO CHEESE

What these entries do not make clear is that a good part of this afternoon was spent hiking with A--- and Bennett from Bow River Falls along the edge of the Bow River and at the base of Tunnel Mountain to a bend in the river where we found a small cluster of hoodoos.

6 vii 06: The First Attempt on Rundle

raw entries from my pocket journal:

10:00 a.m. started walking up Mt Rundle with A--- and Bennett Ayling
2:00 p.m. nearing summit [that was my impression at the time -- we were still probably 750 meters below the summit] almost level with Sulfur Mt
3:15 pm after reaching area above treeline turned back because of approaching thunderstorms a bit of rain below treeline
5:35 pm reached Bow River Falls
6:35 in Tommy's Pub -- 20.00 cab to hostel 3.00
7:15 dinner at Hostel
8:00 beer in pub at Hostel
12:45 to bed. Room 101 this time.

5 vii 06: Wednesday: Bow Lake Trail

At this point in my travels, I was caught between wanting to carry out as much of my original tour plan as possible and spending as much time as possible with A---. What I didn't fully consider was just how much time A--- might wish to spend with me. I guess that's all part of infatuation. Even the slightest availability seems to be an open invitation to a lifetime together! Ah, looking back on this a year later, it seems, well, comical. On the 5th of July, 2006, I was less able to place matters in a broader context.

At this point I had for several days been keeping two journals -- one, my pocket journal with daily notes, and another, a larger journal not so easily managed while walking and so kept in my large backpack, in which I recorded more lengthy reflections upon my situation, sometimes in the form of letters to A--- or to my wife.

The rapid unfolding and changing of plans is reflected in the following notations in my pocket journal:

WEDNESDAY 5TH VII 06
Horseback riding [struck through] or
canoeing [struck through]
Bowlake walk [underlined: this was what I actually did]

THURSDAY 6TH VII 06
Hike on Mt Rundle
Sulfur Mountain Gondola [struck through]
& walk on mountain [struck through]
HOT SPRINGS [struck through]

FRIDAY 7TH VII 06
LONG DAY HIKE

SATURDAY 8TH
canoeing or
Horseback riding [neither struck through, but neither done: this was our second attempt on Rundle]

SUNDAY 9TH
PREP FOR RETURN

MONDAY 10TH [followed by the time notation, written later in a darker graphite:] 8: am
MOOSE TOUR OUT TO REVELSTOKE

TUESDAY 11TH
MOOSE TOUR OUT TO KELOWNA

WEDNESDAY 12TH
RETURN TO VANCOUVER
with Mackay-COLES

THURSDAY 13TH
FLIGHT OUT

FRIDAY 14TH HOME

[Annette Barrie's e-mail address, in her hand, and her mailing address, in mine]

Amusing UK Shows
The Fast Show
Harry M. Field & Chums
Little Britain
The Office (UK)
Two Pints of Lager & A Packet of Crisps (HMV)
Phoenix Nights (or Peter K.)

Alan partridge
Billy Connolly
In League of Gentlemen dark twisted humour

yy cwdoll
DELHAUSIE Scotch whiskey

[Delwyn Savage's e-mail address in her hand]
BOW RIVER & SWIFT RIVER with A---
6 VII 06 MORNING

Tom Isherwood -- manchester geography & geology [his e-mail in his own hand]

hardtail bikes (style of mt bike[)]
back to Banff Underground [internet cafe] downloads & e-mail
Borrowed $20 from A---

Matthew [from the UK] studied at U of Va

Montreal a hostel in M recommended by A---
free internet breakfast laundry $22.00

[Stephen Halstead's e-mail address in his own hand]
Stephen back from Calgary ate dinner c him; after A--- and I had each a beer at the HI pub. $4.00 + 25 c tip [okay, okay, so that's a lousy tip, so sue me already]

[Kasper Fundahl's (i.e. the "Caspar" of "Caspar and Pernilla" fame) e-mail -- actually his wife's; in his hand]

Other than the notation "Bow River & Swift River with A--- / 6 VII 06 Morning" there is little here to suggest the activity of the day: apparently much of it was spent talking about television shows and talking about or consuming alcohol. Actually, I think that may be more accurate than not. However, I did take an extended (but very fast) walk -- almost a jog -- along the Bow and Swift Rivers at the base of Mt Rundle.

4 vii 06: In Banff

Raw entries from my journal:

Tunnel Mt Rd becomes OTTER ST

PRANA CAPS 29.99

sign in Warner Guide & Outfitters shop:

THE ONLY TIME A WOMAN CAN CHANGE A MAN IS WHEN HE'S A BABY

WILD FLOUR artisanal cafe

LOVELY WILL RETURN

$4.25 for toast and coffee

MOUNTAIN MAGIC OUTFITTERS $50.77 for camel pack and hat [that is, a 3 litre hydration sack by Platypus and a baseball cap by Cloudveil]

Toward Tunnel Mt Trail from Tunnel Mot Rd 4.VII.06 12:16 pm

DIFF BETW. SCIENCE & PHILOS. [remainder of entry all in caps, but for clarity here in mixed face] Philos. provides grounding principles -- when science articulates laws it intersects with philosophy. Science is oriented largely to practical knowledge -- is more grounded in specifics rather than speculation. When I adjust my paddle stroke or my hydration nozzle, this is science -- when I consider the beauty of a good stroke or placement of the nozzle this is art or philosophy -- art is more the direct experience of the beauty, philosophy more the implications...

12:30 at trail head of Tunnel Mt Tr. The summit is 2.3 km away, 750 m up

rug/mat juniper privet some sort of rose tiny sarvisberry strawberry pussy toes (pink) harebells sedum (flowering yellow) yarrow golden ragwort or something very similar, gaillardia, lots of mosquitoes, carpenter ants and other sorts as well pines c two short needles to a bract, delphiniums (not flowering) uva ursi, some kind of short goldenrod or ranunculus [drawing of leaf] [crossed out:] might also be corydalis
pinkish corydalis lower down
lichen moss
[drawing with caption:] this is the flower head (unopened)
Gooseberry or something closely similar
[drawing of leaf, stem, and flower:] some type of white madder

1:54 pm at the summit -- butterflies on the mountain

LOGAN & CHRISTIE from Edmonton a pleasant conversation on the way down

This is the Western Edge of the Atlantic Realm.

2;40 back to the hard road halfway to the Banff Center

DAVE from TX gave lift from road

TOM TOM GPS GARMIN is good handheld recommendation by Fred Allen
FreddieAllen.com 3:00 pm
3:19 assessing foodstocks

BAGELS YOGURT sugar
SALAD PASTA pepper
BUTTER NACHOS tomatoes
JAM SALSA potatoes

Pernilla and Caspar 301

3 vii 06: Shuswap to Banff

At this point in my travel, although I had kept fairly detailed notes giving a clear sequence of events in the day, I had been in conversation with an English traveller who suggested that rather than recording the experience I should, well, experience it.

So, for example, the entry in my journal for 3 vii 06 makes no mention whatever of the fact that the Moose Tour stopped in the Revelstoke area to learn kayaking techniques from a man named Terry [www.naturalescapes.ca] who also makes his own kayaks (he is an industrial arts instructor in the off-season).

Raw entries from my journal:

CENTRAL BC near SHUSWAP LAKE in SALMON ARM

9:42 am 3 VII 06
recycling does not seem to have caught on here -- despite the Tim Hortons rather than Crispy Creme [sic] this area seems very AMUHRICIN

[some British terms identified by British travellers as distinguishing the Brits from the Yanks:]
WONKY BOLLOCKS DODGEY [several others were offered, but I did not write them down, to my regret]

Although the rocks are different the geomorphic structures here are reminiscent to a degre of Sunbury or Lewisbury -- but the ridges are not as tight; there is a bit more air, although it is apparently record high temperatures here

Birmingham accent [identified by a British traveller as the most un-lovely of English accents]

Charles DeLint for Willow
Emily Rodda
Cornelia Funke
Paolo Couli -- ? Brasilian The Pilgrimage, Eleven Minutes
[authors identified as worth investigation by an Englich traveller]

REPORT POACHERS AND POLLUTERS [a sign on the highway]

Selkirk Mountains -- part of the Columbia Mountains

ROGERS PASS 1330 meters
sub-alpine ecosystem

[sketch of mountains]
spruce & birch or aspen

[sketch of road sign indicating the danger of a car sliding and overturning if travelling at too great a speed]

[sketch of three trees, with labels:]
birch fir aspen

[sketch with label:]
brown cone of pebbles

Tom Petty: Let's Get to the Point You don't know how it feels...
COLDPLAY

MASON JENNINGS BUTTERFLY I don't know how you got inside me baby but you're in there now

FIRE IN YOHO [National Park] -- watch fr KICKING HORSE RIVER -- PROCUPINE NESTS!

[sketch with label]
erosion in flakes
[second sketch of eriosion in flakes]

[sketches of mountains in the Lake Louise area]

[sketch with label:]
Mt Rundel

Canadian Rickies Rafting Company Bow River and Horseshoe Canyon

8:00 am pickup $71 CAD per person
Kicking River Gorge 7:50 pickup 110.25 CAD per person
GONDOLA $22.50 roundtrip
:10, :22 7 - 11 $2.00

9:40 pm ROCKY MTN TIME IN THE KITCHEN OF THE BANFF HOSTELL WITH ANNETTE FROM AUSTRALIA She is cooking dinner -- pasta and red sauce
Drinking cider -- whichever bottle has the most is hers

[in his own hand, Ben Ayling's address]

A bit of explanation

My original intent in travelling to Canada was not, in fact, to fall in love: neither to fall in love with Western Canada, which I did, nor to fall in love with a woman, which I did.



As to the falling in love with Western Canada, I think this is one of those largely safe and unrequited loves in which no-one sees any real harm. It didn't really do a thing to help my failing marriage that I came home raving about the wonders of British Columbia and Alberta, but in and of itself, my infatuation with them was neither here nor there.



As to the falling in love with a woman, well, I must at this point, a year after the business, exercise some degree of caution: British Columbia probably doesn't mind that I blog about it, but my acquaintance of those two weeks in June and July of 2006 probably does mind that I would blog about her. My concern here is to illustrate my travel experiences, which, for good or ill included the experience of falling in love, not to libel the person who, for good or ill, was the object of my attention. That I fell in love with her and that she was strictly involved with her own affairs is very important to remember here.



Suffice it to say that I changed my plans radically at this point, while I was 8 days into a 21 day trip. I don't regret the change in part -- the pace of the journey was hectic and I was ready for a bit of rest -- but I do regret that I missed seeing the Athabasca Ice Fields, for example.



My reflections upon my feelings may be instructive for those suffering from similar feelings, or for those who (for whatever reasons of their own) are interested in studying me.

2 vii 06 Squilax to Copper Island

Raw entries from my journal

Departing Squilax HI on canoe 10:35

Furthest out & heading back c current 11:25

mink -- merganser c 4 chicks -- kingfisher -- fish jumping -- osprey

2 beaver lodges -- one on far side (west)
Attempt to photograph osprey nest, but speed boater's wake makes it difficult

daytime (red) BAT!

12 noon damn! here comes another [speedboat]

Perilla's sweater

AT SQUILAX waiting for TIM from COPPER ISLAND

Blair [proprietor of Squilax General Store HI] sez:

TRUE NORTH tours are the best tours of Canada
[www.]truenorthtours.com

Jasper is great on the trail
Via Rail on the Canada Pacific line is not that great -- not worth the money.

BUT -- get a 30-day pass and it's actually CHEAPER than the CHURCHILL RUN -- but it INCLUDES that run!

company that rents SUVs equipped for camping: Canadian Adventure Rentals

www.canadian-adventure-rentals.com

[address of a fellow traveller's blog -- withheld for legal considerations]

HI Jasper Box 387 Jasper AB T0E 1E0 Tel 780.852-3215
jihostel@hostellingintl.ca
877.852-0781 toll free
Athabasca Falls Hostel c/o the above
Mt Edith Clavell c/o the above


Salmon Run in fall is quite something to see