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Jul. 3rd, 2008 09:40 amLast day in Jasper, catching the bus to Calgary at 13:30. Roflpies.
So here's a brief summary of my adventures in Jasper. Because I have time to burn and if I'm burning it I might as well share the details.
Got here early morning on June 30th. Found a hotel room. Parked there for the rest of the day because I had no ufcking energy for anything. Started Phoenix Wright: Justice For All.
Woke up the next morning and spent a huge chunk of the morning (lawl, Canada Day) searching for a place to stay again because the hotel I was in the night before was booked to death. After much searching I eventually found something. Spent the other half of the day looking for guided hikes anywhere (none were available, it's a slow week for this sort of nonsense - mostly because of Canada Day. Speaking of which, I got to watch a parade. Yay.). Eventually I hit the information center and recieved an uber-handy trail map of the area, which I abused that evening - made a nice little loop through the forests and by a few of the lakes (Note to anyone travelling anywhere in any area around here - DO NOT forget a Mosquito Repellent. The mosquitoes here mean business. Seriously. >>) and returned to the room to plan the trail for the day after and sleep. And then there were fireworks. Also, that night I finished Phoenix Wright: Justice For All. Fucking awesome game, much like the rest of the series.
Note to self: Pick up Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations and possibly Apollo Justice when I hit Toronto.
The next day I couldn't drag myself out of bed until around 11-something AM. Had a nice breakfast at the regular place (I found this little Café called the Soft Rock Café on my first or second day in Jasper and I was so impressed by their bloody amazing omelettes and excellent choice of background music that I started having breakfast there every day) and picked up an extra bottle of water (to complement the two I already had) and a few cinnamon rolls for the way - and then, at 12-something, I left along the trail I planned.
The trail I planned was a rather long walk from Jasper Town to Old Fort Point, and from there along the Athabasca River (with a few side turns here and there because of a few little lakes along the way), through Maligne Canyon (Which by the way is fucking gorgeous) and on in a loop through a few other lakes back to the town. Turned out to be a nine hour walk overall, with a few minor stops along the way (I think the longest I've stopped was in the Maligne Canyon restaurant in order to restock on water - I finished my bottles on the way there - and inject myself with Lemon Nestea. Mmmm, caffeine...)
It was effing awesome.
Wildlife encountered includes mass amounts of Squirrels (little bastards are so jittery it's nearly impossible to get a decent picture of one) a few Elk (I'm assuming it's Elk anyway - large dark brown demon deer of doomsdaye with a face that DOESN'T look like an inverted sock) and a couple of unidentified raptors that gave me flybys. Also lots of dragonflies (or is it damselflies? they were rather small for dragonflies/damselflies and all were in flight so I couldn't get a chance to identify them. Oh, and they were blue. A few of them were mating, I think. o_O) and the goddamn mosquitoes. Seriously. The mosquito attack from the night before made my hands swell up and it hurt to move them sometimes. O_o
When I reached Jasper town again it was nine-something in the evening, closer to 10, I think. Mildly sunburnt and with leg pains, but it was so bloody worth it.
I only managed to fall asleep at 2 AM and had only three hours to sleep, as I was planning to grab the 6:24 bus to Calgary this morning. But as the ticket office only opens at 8, I ended up having to drop that idea and take the afternoon bus. I'm going to end up in Calgary at 23:45. O_o Bloody hell. Oh well, at least I got to see a bunch of Elk - some with actually mostly developed (yet still fuzzy) antlers - grazing on the train-track side grass, so it wasn't an entire waste to wake up that early.
Meow.
~*~
On completely unrelated note: Holy shitake mushrooms, Chrono Trigger DS. O_O
... Must... Obtain... Somehow. Seriously, first FFIV DS and now THIS. Why the fuck are all these games coming out when I can't get to them?! x_x
Also, I require moar Katie. >>; Seriously counting the days here. <<;
So here's a brief summary of my adventures in Jasper. Because I have time to burn and if I'm burning it I might as well share the details.
Got here early morning on June 30th. Found a hotel room. Parked there for the rest of the day because I had no ufcking energy for anything. Started Phoenix Wright: Justice For All.
Woke up the next morning and spent a huge chunk of the morning (lawl, Canada Day) searching for a place to stay again because the hotel I was in the night before was booked to death. After much searching I eventually found something. Spent the other half of the day looking for guided hikes anywhere (none were available, it's a slow week for this sort of nonsense - mostly because of Canada Day. Speaking of which, I got to watch a parade. Yay.). Eventually I hit the information center and recieved an uber-handy trail map of the area, which I abused that evening - made a nice little loop through the forests and by a few of the lakes (Note to anyone travelling anywhere in any area around here - DO NOT forget a Mosquito Repellent. The mosquitoes here mean business. Seriously. >>) and returned to the room to plan the trail for the day after and sleep. And then there were fireworks. Also, that night I finished Phoenix Wright: Justice For All. Fucking awesome game, much like the rest of the series.
Note to self: Pick up Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations and possibly Apollo Justice when I hit Toronto.
The next day I couldn't drag myself out of bed until around 11-something AM. Had a nice breakfast at the regular place (I found this little Café called the Soft Rock Café on my first or second day in Jasper and I was so impressed by their bloody amazing omelettes and excellent choice of background music that I started having breakfast there every day) and picked up an extra bottle of water (to complement the two I already had) and a few cinnamon rolls for the way - and then, at 12-something, I left along the trail I planned.
The trail I planned was a rather long walk from Jasper Town to Old Fort Point, and from there along the Athabasca River (with a few side turns here and there because of a few little lakes along the way), through Maligne Canyon (Which by the way is fucking gorgeous) and on in a loop through a few other lakes back to the town. Turned out to be a nine hour walk overall, with a few minor stops along the way (I think the longest I've stopped was in the Maligne Canyon restaurant in order to restock on water - I finished my bottles on the way there - and inject myself with Lemon Nestea. Mmmm, caffeine...)
It was effing awesome.
Wildlife encountered includes mass amounts of Squirrels (little bastards are so jittery it's nearly impossible to get a decent picture of one) a few Elk (I'm assuming it's Elk anyway - large dark brown demon deer of doomsdaye with a face that DOESN'T look like an inverted sock) and a couple of unidentified raptors that gave me flybys. Also lots of dragonflies (or is it damselflies? they were rather small for dragonflies/damselflies and all were in flight so I couldn't get a chance to identify them. Oh, and they were blue. A few of them were mating, I think. o_O) and the goddamn mosquitoes. Seriously. The mosquito attack from the night before made my hands swell up and it hurt to move them sometimes. O_o
When I reached Jasper town again it was nine-something in the evening, closer to 10, I think. Mildly sunburnt and with leg pains, but it was so bloody worth it.
I only managed to fall asleep at 2 AM and had only three hours to sleep, as I was planning to grab the 6:24 bus to Calgary this morning. But as the ticket office only opens at 8, I ended up having to drop that idea and take the afternoon bus. I'm going to end up in Calgary at 23:45. O_o Bloody hell. Oh well, at least I got to see a bunch of Elk - some with actually mostly developed (yet still fuzzy) antlers - grazing on the train-track side grass, so it wasn't an entire waste to wake up that early.
Meow.
~*~
On completely unrelated note: Holy shitake mushrooms, Chrono Trigger DS. O_O
... Must... Obtain... Somehow. Seriously, first FFIV DS and now THIS. Why the fuck are all these games coming out when I can't get to them?! x_x
Also, I require moar Katie. >>; Seriously counting the days here. <<;
