Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1933-09-28
THE OHIO RAMBLERS RETURN
FROM ALASKA

service rendered on this tour, just
imagine our surprise and delight,
when arriving at the station of the
Canadian National railways, we find
waiting us our original special train,
the same Pullman cars, the same
porters, and each person having the
same sections as on our western
journey to the Pacific coast. We
are now anticipating the promised
beauties of the Canadian Rockies.
We enjoy the afternoon and evening
feasting on the scenic beauties as
we view canyons of the Thompson
and the Fraser which yield us a
steady panorama of interesting g
scenery. Dinner on the diners.
Monday, Aug 81. Our 18th day
Of the tour. Shortly after break
fast our train stops for Is minutes
highest peak in the Canadian Rock
les.
We arrive at Jasper, 10:.45 a. m.,
here we leave our train and by mo-
Lodge in Jasper National park. We
take our overnight bags with us, as
we are to spend the night in the
cabins bordering lovely Lac Beau
vert. Luncheon at Jasper Lodge.
After lunch we take a motor trip
some 20 miles to Mt. Edith Cavell,
enjoying a thrilling trip up the Ath-
alaska valley. Dinner at Jasper
Lodge, then quiet night snug in
the mountains.
Aug. %. Breakfast at Jasper
Lodge, then another motor trip to
see another side of Jasper park;
this time we pass many beautiful
lakes and arrive at Maligne Canyon
with its rushing, tumbling waters
then back to our train, thus spend
ing one full day and night in Jasper
park. To the average reader, Jas
per park just means another park;
but to give you some idea of the
immensity and grandeur of this
park, l will dwell on a few facts
brought to my attention.
Jasper park is the largest Nation
area of 200 square miles. Within
the far flung borders of Jasper park
are a thousand miles of we'll kept
horse trails and hundred miles of
motor roads. Jasper Lodge offers
the comforts Of modern summer
hotel with accommodation for $50
guests, with the most superb golf
course on the continent: and mile
upon mile of mountain foi iest known
only to the bears and the deer and
the intrepid mountain men and
their ponies; peak after peak,
known not even to the hardest
climber, but only to the everlasting
SHOWS. Within one-fourth of a mile
OF the lodge, at the dumping ground
for refuse from the hotel. we saw at
one time IA black bear and two
cubs, and as all wild game is pro-
tected in the park, these animals
seemed TO express no fear of man,
and when approached within so
feet continued to contentedly de-
vour the food proyided> Thousands
of deer ramble the valleys and
mountain sides Jasper Lodge is
surrounded by many wonders of ma
ture. Maligne lake-statistics tell
us-is nearly 20 miles long, and is
the largest glacial lake in the Ca
madam Rockies. Maligne is one of
the wonders of the world. 1t is
hemmed in by high mountains, few
of them climbed. some not even
named; great masses that geologists
say are older than the Alps tre-
mendous peaks bearing a burden of
snow and ice that never leaves
them. The glacier at the foot of Mt.
Edith Cavell covers hundreds OF
acres, and the depth of the ice can
only be conjectured Our party
rambled over this field of ice; at
places We discovered cracks in the
ice where we could apparently see
down so to 100 feet. Jasper Ma
tional park in Alberta, just on the
British Columbia line and Joined on
the west by Mt. Robson park, and
north of these parks is a big game
country roamed by game that has
never yet met man.
1t will be we'll to give you some
idea of the beauties encountered on
cur trip and visit to Maligne can
yon
Maligne canyon is said to be one
of the most wonderful pot-hole can
yons on the continent, it's great
depth, it's narrowness in places: it is
scarcely more than a slit between
dark walls of rock, and the great
size of the pot-holes, worn by the
water in the course of ages, all
make it of extreme interest to the
eeologist and the nature lover.
The Maligne valley is one of the
changing type" with an elevation of
approximately 500 feet above that
of the Athabaska which it joins. At
one time, at the close of the glacial
period, the melting waters from the
glaciers in the upper Maligne and
Medicine lake valley may have leap.
ed over the lip of the upper valley,
in a wild falls. Then finding some
fault in the Devonian limestones, the
river began to carve an ever deep
ening path down the rock. With
only rushing water and imprisoned
boulders for tools, it has cut its way
down through strata after strata
representing the deposits Of mil
lions of years. Huge pot-holes worn
by the swirling boulders, now left
deserted and empty high above it's
bed, show where through long CEN