MEANDERING MOOSE

Yay!  Bryce is here with us in Jasper National Park, Alberta.      Just as we were getting ready to head back to the lower 48, Bryce called and arranged for a visit. So into Edmonton, Alberta she flew for an 11 day vacation.  What a great surprise and perfect timing for our visit to Jasper and Banff National Parks in Alberta. Bryce and Nancy on the shore of a Jasper lake.      Japer is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is full of massive mountains, glaciers and wildlife. For the first 3 days of Bryce's visit we had great weather and were able to see everything in Jasper that time allowed.          Just as we entered Jasper we were treated to a private viewing of a small herd of bighorn sheep. Then it was on to a beautiful national park campground located approximately 10 miles from the town of Jasper.  Once we settled in, off we went to to explore the park.  The highlight of the journey wa...

     ...of Lake Labarge, I cremated Sam McGee."--Robert W. Service.  The 1907 poem "The Cremation of Sam McGee" is, by far, the most famous poem of Alaska and the Yukon Territories.  I had to look-up "marge" to discover it meant "margin" or "edge."  It seems that most places we traveled in our northwest journey there was some reference to the poet or the poem.  However, nowhere was it more in-your-face than Dawson City, YT.  It was Dawson City that everybody was rushing to in the Klondike Gold Rush from 1896-1899.  The town was full of either gold miners or those smart enough to "mine" the gold miners.  Robert Service was there for the action and provided much of the entertainment in the local bars by orating poems for the patrons.  His name became intimately attached to Dawson City and the gold rush. What is a "gold rush" town without some bars babes dancing around and showing their underwear? Panning for "...