Saturday, July 12, 2014

more north, hot north, long north, go

Camped along the Athabasca river in jasper park friday night. Same campsite as 7? years ago with son john. Set up my new paint box and worked for an hour, getting one board covered with paint and one covered with drawing notes.  Nice path to river from camp. Good place for fetching the dog. Short walk to the crapper. Rice beans corn for dinner. Chocolate for dessert. Slept in till seven. Enjoyed the cool night. Stopped for a nice French style coffee in Jasper. Lunch out of the esso station cooler at grand cache and a ride through the oil patch to Grand Prairie, which is a dry 95°. 1300 miles to go before the turn on the Dempster highway. Long way.

Forgot to tell about Chewy the wonder dog finding his muse - an open range cow in deep cover along the road north of waterton park. I was taking his picture when suddenly he was gone. There was a crashing in the underbrush and the dog's owner was moving rapidly down the road shouting his name. It was a herding dog reacting (feloniously?) to a random chance to fulfill his previously unimagined destiny. Quite delightful.

At the end of our highland drive from grand cache through the oil fields, we came past 3- 4 hundred Canadians congregated along the river 12 km south of grand prairie. It was more idyllic from the highway than up close.

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