Evening star., 1937-05-02

in the form of splendid cataract
known as Athabaska Falls Still an
other drive goes to lake at the foot
Of Pyramid Mountain, a peak that is
as shot with colors as watered silk.
Prefers Informal Dress.
Jasper is honey sort of place
and while it accepts men who like to-
or do-doll up in boiled shirt for
dinner, it doesn't encourage that sort
OF thing. 1t much prefers the in
formal person who wants to wear a
soft shirt, and as long As he wears a
tie and coat with it he can be sure
OF being in style.
For his golf. dad has to walk less
than 100 yards from the main lodge
to reach the first tee of an 18-hole
golf course which ranks among the
first 10 golf courses of the world It
Will probably encourage the player to
know that if he doesn't break par on
the course, neither has anybody else
and some of the most expert golfers
have tried.
For his fishing, the angler has only
to go to Maligne Lake or the Tonquin
Valley and if he can't catch a full
mess OF trout in either place he had
better give up fishing. Maligne Lake
Is a perfect speckled trout area, and
many freshman says the streams
and lakes of the Tonquin Valley can't
be beaten for rainbow trout. And
there's hoon Nf
both places to boot.
The young folks problem at JASPER
isn't to find something to do but how
TO md the time to do all that can be
done. For them, there is tennis. golf,
swimming, boating and dancing at the
lodge, fishing with dad, or motoring
with mother. But there are lots of
other things as we'll, typical young
folk stuff.
Yodeling Guides in Mountains,
Suppose, for instance, the youths
want to climb mountain. There are
always yodeling Swiss guides within
mailing distance and as for noun
talns-well, all one has to do is point
a finger in the air, squint along it, and
the chances are 10 to l that the
finger tip will be aimed square at
some peak that nobody has ever
Climbed. This mountain climbing is
sort Of reath-taking business but
the young folks seem to like 1t and
II they want it, Jasper's the place
to get it.
But it's on the trail that the Young
1olks have the real fun. There are
cowboy guides and broad backed, sure
looted mountain ponies. It doesn't
matter If they can't ride. Thev'u stav
on somehow and if they don't. the
guide will hoist them up again.
AS for trails, they go wandering all
over the map, in sort of crazy-uuilt
fashion like the streets of Boston. but
they take you places. They Chamber
up the sides of the mountains to the
edge OF snow fields. where the chances
are good Of finding big patches of the
oluest forget-me-nots growing. They'll
amole through the shadiest, coolest
sort OF woods and curl along the shores
OF lakes that vary in color from deepest
jade to amethyst. They roam through
alpland meadows where marmots
whistle CHEEKY welcome and startled
ptarmlgan rise on whirring wings out
OF the deep heather into the blue sky.
They slip down into deep valleys to roll
merrlly along for way with gurgline,
emerald brook.
Campfire Climax.
And at the end of the dav there
is always fine camp site where tents
or tepees are pitched, where a pine
log fire, scented with juniper boughs,
burns and where the stars hang so
low that it seems it is only necessary
TO lit up a hand to pluck the Big
Dipper out of the sky. And the tales
those cowboy guides can spin are
something to marvel at.
If its hiking instead of riding the
young folks prefer, that sort of thing
is available, too. Along many trails
cabins are located every or 10 miles
so that a comfortable walking tour of
four or five days can easily be mapped
out. If it is camera studies, motion
or still, that interest the young folks.
there are few better places to click
shutter. The subjects are limitless.
They range from fragile flowers to
mountain peaks; from quiet pools to
laundering waterfalls: from Pickering
bluejays to lonely eagles; from clown
lsh coneys to giant grizzlies If it's
a dude ranch they are looking for, one
of the finest in Western Canada Is only
10 miles from the lodge.