In Banff the magnificent sights are in-your-face, you can’t avoid them if you wished. In Jasper you have to get out of your car and explore.
One morning six of us went in to Jasper for breakfast and then on to hike Maligne Canyon. This well-traveled route is gorgeous and the drop-off makes you glad a safety fence runs innocuously along the more dangerous areas.
The feedwater for this beautiful river and falls come not from the surface, but from many underground creeks.
Our hikers this morning included Californians Shirley and Barry, plus from Illinois we had Art and Doris. Art is a farmer and Doris is a retired teacher. To Art, particularly, it was not easy surrounded by Californians, a state he blames for most of the country’s ills. However by nightfall and dinner at the Murray trailer, I think he had become more accepting, at least of us four.
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