Daily Didactic
The morning started early for us, at 7:30, so we could pop up over the rise behind the campground and look at Fryatt Lake and the waterfall above it. It had poured rain overnight, so we packed up everything before leaving the tent and left it to be broken down after we got back. Oddly for us, we were the first to stir in the campground. Even odder, when we got back 45 minutes later there was still no one up. Theresa cooked breakfast while Brian packed up our tent and by the time we were eating at 9:30 only one couple (we believe the only two out of "university") had popped out of their tent. As we hiked out of camp at 10:00 we wondered whether we'd screwed up another time zone, but it probably just turns out that it is nice to be a college student and accustomed to late mornings...

The five hour hike down felt a lot easier than the one up and we were rolling out of the trailhead around 3:00 in the afternoon. According to "G" we had about four and a half hours of driving to do to get to the night's destination, Prince George. Between a quick lunch in Jasper, construction, and gas stops that stretched to a respectable five and a half hours and we rolled into Prince George around 8:30. We had planned on staying at an old standby, the Blue Spruce, a campground we spent a week at in the mid 90's waiting for a new engine for the bus to come from Nova Scotia. Sadly, sometime in the last five years the Blue Spruce has closed it's gate. We developed a quick "Plan B" and headed another hour west to Vanderhoof and settled in to the extraordinarily clean and efficient feeling Dave's RV Park for the night.

Morning in the incredibly picturesque Brussels campground		The food prep area
Bear poles, with the most clever cable system		Looking down the valley at clouds on the Icefield Parkway
The lake at the top of the valley with an amazing waterfall just over Brian's head		An equally cool and much closer waterfall
Theresa, celebrating falling water		And just looking up in any direction gave us this
Cool striations		Heading back, eleven miles downhill
Looking up again		Trail shot
Upstream		The south vista again
We're sure it's bad for the leaf, but it's really pretty		One last look south, we headed north here
The Jasper Visitor Center		Sort of a sad reminder, apparently it rotted and became a public hazard
Destination, Prince George		Seems like BC used to be more humble
We like the sign		Three things the bus is actually faster than
Road shot along a lake we can't remember the name of		We will
Prince George in the early evening...		...welcoming us
On to Plan B, Vanderhoof

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