JUST BACK

Here are some photos from my hiking trip in Jasper:


We went at the end of August and according to park rangers were only the fifth party up into the area that year. Unfortunately our route changed a little because some of the trail was blocked with deadfall from old forest fires. The guidebook said that the area was 'impassable' but we made some progress. It says something about the size of the country that one of its largest and most popular national parks has areas that are so remote.

Here's the nearest we got to a Grizzly:

Just finished reading See No Evil by Robert Baer about the CIA. Very good, but you get the feeling that he's ranting about his old bosses refusing to take the terrorist threat seriously, by relying too much on satellite photos and not on old fashioned agents.

Just started A Shadow In the Cty by Charles Bowden which, so far, is utter crap.