clouds bumped into mountaintops and slid down jagged peaks dissolving into driſt s of chill and damp, and it was eerie outside our aerie. A large and resplendent RV with a large and resplendent boat attached, parked opposite us. T e owner, a gentleman with a Slavic accent, seemed very unpracticed in the art of hooking up to power and sewerage, and we decided he was a Russian oligarch, fantasies possibly fuelled by the Russian space satellite circling above us in the star studded sky. He leſt early the next morning so we never did fi nd out. Otter Street, Beaver Street and
My only worry was about the Sasquatch, a mythical relative of the Yeti.
I leſt David to hook up, level off and
satellite search while I took Mr. B for his evening constitutional of the vicinity, rife with unidentifi ed pooh, possibly from very large rabbits, elk or bear, I was informed on my return. Whatever the biological origins, Mr. B found it all delicious, and obstinately dug his heels in when I tried to drag him away. Shih Tzu’s are deceptively weighty when it comes to forcible removal. T at evening was a time for log fi res, hot chocolate and fl annel pajamas. Wintry
Wolf Street, the noughts and crosses thoroughfare of Banff , were thronged with Japanese and English tourists, wrapped and muffl ed against the cold, peering into the windows of the ski shops and jewelry stores. In the Banff Springs Hotel, a grand and beautiful relic of the splendours of bygone years, when fashionable society arrived with $50,000 notes of credit to pay for their four month sojourns, a couple were being given a tour of the Heritage Hall, prior to booking their wedding reception, and is if to prove that it was indeed heated, a group of boys hopped out of a hidden entrance, to jump UP and down in the outdoor swimming pool, oblivious to the cold. T ere was menace in the clammy grey
curtain of cloud screening the mountains, and the deceptive gently falling snow. Back at the campsite RV’s were pulling up and shipping out like so many wagon
trains fl eeing an Indian ambush. We leſt as the snow began to settle, and a pale torchlight of sun struggled to shine through shrouds of grey. Ribbons of puff y cloud wrapped the
grey peaks beyond the Bow River and spindly trunks of pine trees lined the highway like hundreds of arrows shot into the ground. Crossing from Alberta back into British Columbia, the charred and ashy trunks of burnt trees bristled over the rocks like so many rusty nails, the corpses of summer fi res, and spilled matches of burnt logs carpeted the ground. Scotties RV Park in Creston was an
altogether less abrasive aff air than Banff . Lanes of fragrant pines, leafy trees turning red and gold, and dog-friendly patches of grass speckled with shiny conkers graced each pull-thru. Mr. B was so excited he threw up an undigested dinner. My only worry was about the
Sasquatch, a mythical relative of the Yeti. A bronze statue menacingly prowled the front of the Columbia Brewery, the last independent brewery in Western Canada, across the road from the site. Having worried about nocturnal bears in Banff I now had to worry about huge stalking predators in monkey suits in Creston. We stayed overnight and drove out
the next morning, accompanied by a few souvenir branches clinging to the windscreen, down the main street of old frontier town shops, past wooden grain elevators, and across a valley fl oor of
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