Sawridge Inn And Conference Centre Jasper

After giving up on Switzer and Wildhorse Provincial Parks (not my kind of camping where you are too close to your neighbour), we breezed into the town of Jasper where we wet our whistle (had two pints of Big Rock Traditional Ale) at the Whistle Stop pub which included a music jam on Sunday afternoons. Bogie loved the Big Horn sheep scattered around the park -- but they didn&#8217;t :).<br><br>Moved into the Wabasso campground for four days with a site ...

... to the ridge to see the views. I had to skip this in order to nurse my knee through the last day. The verdict was &#8220; very nice, but it's not Patagonia&#8221;. Hardly anything is. <br><br>It was roughly 13 kms out and we were off to a late start, but it was a very pretty walk above the Maligne valley until we dropped back into the trees and down to the car along the fire road, where the chief interest was the variety of mushrooms, some the size of a dinner plate.<br><br>M.

... wo ein kleiner Tümpel aus Treibsand ständig lustige Wasserbläschen sprudelt. Ausserdem hatte es auch hier ein Cache versteckt, welcher Silvio zuerst fand.<br><br>Weiter auf der Strecke kamen wir erneut in einen &#8222;Bear Jam", weil alle Autos anhielten um einen Bär am Strassenrand zu fotografieren. Ein paar ganz mutige (oder wohl eher dumme?) Leute stiegen sogar aus und näherten sich diesem.<br><br>Fast hätten wir danach einen Geocache verpasst! Beim abrupten Wendemanöver von ...

... were seated at the table with me.  John is a coroner in Chicago and his wife doesn't work. We talked about politics, my journey, and his daughter's poems.  He was an engaging man who cared deeply about his country and made discussion about the assassination of Barack Obama intriguing.  Then I had a delicious carrot cake and retired for the evening.  

... your friend here [me] mounting this sheep! And we think that you should have a picture together, then come in for a drink. So hop on behind her!" It was terrific. So we got a photo of us riding double on the mountain sheep, then went in and met the group of grandfatherly men, plus one 30-something who were with a big tour from England, hiding out from the rest of their group having a beer. They had taken the train across Canada ...

... know about trains probably wasn't worth knowing as he collected them too. Unfortunately, we never really got to know Don as he always sat in their cabin doing crossword puzzles but he always had a smile for you when you saw him and seemed very friendly. They had a cat called Groucho and lived just outside of Toronto in Oakville. Living just outside of Toronto was what started 'the invitation'. A good name for a film. Howard invited us to stay with him and Don as he knew we were ...

3/10/08 - We headed into Jasper again, taking the shuttle down again, the aim to try sort out our photos out and get them burnt to disk, no such look the first net cafe we went was ****, comps were horse ***************ed off to soft rock again just to get the new photos copied onto my memory ...

... dark patches on the trees which were just tress!!! We saw lots of squirrels on the way. We came to a clearing under the tramway (cable car) and I think we started to relax a little. The trees were less dense when we went back into the forest further up the trail. We kept on talking about bears presumably because it was the only thing on our minds!!! As we got higher there were fewer tress and more rocks (big boulders). We decided if a bear was around we would see it more easily ...

... There were 6 of us in a raft, Bob and Natalie had rafted before and so they went in the front, then Paul and me, with Julian behind me and Flo behind Paul. Manning the large oars at the back and making sure we didnt drown was Jeff, our river guide. We had several minutes of quiet water then some white stuff - we all got drenched - even through the wet suits and it was freezing cold!! Flo is seriously addicted and wants to go again and ...

So it's been about a week and a half since our last entry, and in that time we have managed to travel a whole 400 kilometers closer to Alaska...that's a pretty impressive 40 km/day. That's only a little more than a half tank of gas so Kevin is happy that we are back in line with our "transportation" budget. It's a little deceiving because we've done some backtracking - west from Calgary to Banff National Park (Banff) for 4 days, then ...