Let's just say that my friendly barmaid poured me one too many many diet cokes last night and I forgot to set my alarm clock for 6:30am. So at 6:52am I casually woke up and realized I had 8 minutes to get changed, pack, check out and Get me and my gear 3 blocks to the train station for the 7am train to Jasper! haha Luckily for me I had packed mostly the night before, paid my bill ahead of time and there was a cab sitting outside the hotel, and most importantly, the train didn't leave until 7:30am heh. Totally not like me to miss a time like that, or, more importantly to get a time of an appointment wrong.
Prince George was a rather neat town, rather spread out with no real high rises or built up areas. Although I think it was a little tricky to find things when they were all cover in snow. Plus it was very cold, the coldest I had been on this trip so far. And I was very welcome for the company whilst I was there...
Never mind - I was happy to be on the train! Besides the 3 staff working on the train (driver, engineer and the attendant) there were only 3 other people. Myself and an elderly couple. We had 3 train cars to ourselves so saying we had lots of room was a slight understatement hehe! PLus the other couple had actually lived in the area between Prince George and Jasper for 22 years so as we rode the rails they pointed out pretty much every farm and, hill and landmark around. I couldn't have paid for better guides! What luck!
I'll upload the photo's later, but I thought that Craigdarroch Castle in Victoria was the best thing I'd seen in Canada, well maybe it was up until today. That train trip through the Snowy wilderness was absolutely incredible. The unspoilt natural beauty of the hills, rivers and mountains were amazing. I would love to do this again sometime, The first 10 minutes of the trip were worth the $100 it cost for the ticket, and the 9 hour trip just got better and more incredible with every passing hour. The photo's probably once again wont do it the justice it deserves - sometimes I think that I shouldn't take photo's for that reason, but they are a record for my trip so I shall persevere :-)
Anyhow, Got into Jasper tonight and checked in to a motel. It's -17 degrees outside at the moment - it's incredible how you can walk not even 30 metres and the legs of my jeans feel like the are iced up. It's awesome!
Anyhow, I'm dead tired so I will cut this short tonight and up date this to be more essay-like tomorrow sometime. I'm just in Jasper for a few days, primarily to suss out tours, passes and transfers-to-the-skifields information for when I come back here in several days. So basically just going to take it a bit easy and update a bit of web information and look around the place. Oh by the way - the top temperature of the day here get UP to -12 degress hahaha! holy shit - how cold is that! :-)
Cheers
Matt
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