A Paddling Trip Down Jasper’s Athabasca
13 Jul
One of us here in the Canoeing.com office has some vacation days coming in August. Funny thing, though, he’s not exactly sure where he’s going to paddle those days.
THIS recent Vancouver Sun story, however, put Canada’s Athabasca River on the hit list. The river runs from the foot of the Columbia Glacier in Jasper National Park in Alberta to the lake of the same name some 765 miles later.
The Sun’s Megan Kopp only paddled a 50-mile stretch of the Canadian Heritage River within Jasper — and took her time doing so. Still, she and her family saw historic sites, wolves, and mountain goats — and got in some sand dune racing — during their five-day trip.
