SIERRA CLUB BULLETIN 



VOLUME 

 TEN 



SAN FRANCISCO 



JANUARY X^'^'' 

 1918 



A WEEK AROUND MOUNT ROBSON 

 , By Marion Randall Parsons 



WHAT is your final destination?" asked the immigration 

 officer. For a wanderer with such indefinite plans the 

 question seemed simpler to answer according to catechism than 

 to geography. 



"May I say heaven ?" I asked. 



"No/* said he, not relaxing his official solemnity, "not un- 

 less you have a ticket there." 



So I gave Jasper Park as the farthest east of my summer 

 destinations. 



Jasper Park and Forest Reserve, and the smaller Mount 

 Robson Park on its western margin, lie along the borders of 

 British Columbia and Alberta on the line of the Grand Trunk 

 Pacific Railway. Tributaries of the Fraser, the Athabasca and 

 the Peace rivers rise among the great snowfields that make 

 these two great parks of the northern Rockies a shining glory 

 for mountaineers. The region is also rich in the romance of 

 the great fur trading companies. Jasper House and Henry 



