Leslie Thursday, May 22, 2008
Whistler’s Campground in Jasper National Park is another wonderful Canadian government campground with widely spaced full hook-up site (30 amp) amid lodgepole pines. We were pleased to find all three of our immediately past campgrounds.
Here’s picture of our campsite.
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And the view out our picture window.
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It didn’t rain today but the weather remained chilly and cloudy. The cats are now sharing Molly’s heated bed.
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We spent several hours setting up our campground reservations for southeast Alaska. Because we have ferry reservations and therefore know when we’ll be at each stop, we decided that we might as well make campground reservations.
Later we drove to Jasper to get diesel and check out the town. The town of Jasper has only 4000 residents; it appears to be mostly a tourist town. We try to fill up on diesel after setting up camp so that we don’t have to maneuver the rig in a tight gas station. Diesel was actually slightly less expensive in Jasper than in Banff, only (ha, ha) $1.329 per liter).
More later,
Leslie
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Exploring Jasper
Robert, Thursday, May 22
We did a number of chores around the trailer today. We made reservations for all of the stops we will make when going up the southeast coast of Alaska. Some of the stops are small towns with few choices of places to camp. One of the campgrounds was actually filled but the manager said he would fir us in somehow. As a comparison, the campground where we are now has something like 350 sites. The one where the manager said he would fir us in has 7 sites.
The tires needed air. Before we left home, we bought a CO2 tank to inflate tires. It looks like a scuba air tank except it is filled with carbon dioxide. Using a small air compressor can take 10 minutes to put air in one tire. With this tank, it takes 10 seconds. The other great advantage is that our air compressor needs 110 vac; the tank needs no power so it is much easier to use in the middle of nowhere.
After that we went into town. The population of Jasper is something like 4,000. There is one station that has a diesel pump, one small grocery store, a bunch of tourist gift shops, and that is about all.
We did a number of chores around the trailer today. We made reservations for all of the stops we will make when going up the southeast coast of Alaska. Some of the stops are small towns with few choices of places to camp. One of the campgrounds was actually filled but the manager said he would fir us in somehow. As a comparison, the campground where we are now has something like 350 sites. The one where the manager said he would fir us in has 7 sites.
The tires needed air. Before we left home, we bought a CO2 tank to inflate tires. It looks like a scuba air tank except it is filled with carbon dioxide. Using a small air compressor can take 10 minutes to put air in one tire. With this tank, it takes 10 seconds. The other great advantage is that our air compressor needs 110 vac; the tank needs no power so it is much easier to use in the middle of nowhere.
After that we went into town. The population of Jasper is something like 4,000. There is one station that has a diesel pump, one small grocery store, a bunch of tourist gift shops, and that is about all.
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