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]
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]
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