On the road by 8.00 to head for Jasper. Scenery less spectacular than previously and fairly barren with trees either destroyed by fire or stricken by disease.
After Clearwater the countryside along the North Thompson River increasingly attractive with glacial lakes galore.
Call in at Blue River to check our River Safari Bear Watching, great poster to entice us but at $80 a head we decided that the boat trips did not really offer much that we had not already seen on earlier bear-sightings in Alaska. As we approach Valemouth the mountains become increasingly more grand and we call in at Valemouth Motel to enjoy some superb homemade burgers. The hotel was a bit like something out of 'Deliverance' but the chef obviously knew what he was doing.
Visit Mt.Robson, highest point in the Rockies, and call into Rearguard Falls, notable as the place where only the strongest Chinook salmon reach after 800 miles upstream, to then die or be eaten by a bear!
Gain the first view of Mt Terry Fox, named as a tribute to a young cancer sufferer from Ontario who died at the age of 23 in 1980 and undertook his Marathon of Hope across Canada in spite of being an amputee. Sadly Terry succumbed to his cancer shortly after completing his walk but he has since been an inspiration to so many cancer sufferers and this year there will be a 30th Anniversary Terry Fox Run in his honour. "Carpe Diem" everybody!
Arrive at Beckers Cabins just outside Jasper as the weather gradually closes in. Log cabins beautifully appointed and in a superb setting.
Takeaway pizzas for dinner then early to bed. Stereophonic snoring from that well-known folk group The Yelverton Sisters( in separate rooms, by the way ) makes for a less than perfect night's sleep and reminds us fellows of the nights when we were kept awake by them for more romantic reasons!
Cheers
The Obese Ferret who may not survive to write another blog after that little aside.
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