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]
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]
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