Lost in Jasper
When I arrived in Canada, I was there for about a week before someone mentioned Jasper Nation Park. I had asked where the best place to go was for countryside and landscapes outside of British Columbia. Jasper was the answer. Within 24 hours of hearing that I had booked my Greyhound to take me there. and 24 hours after that, I was on the coach with a couple of friends.
It took around five hours to get to Jasper, which was a little frustrating in the heat, but it was mostly ok. Once we got there we wandered around until we found our hotel. We packed everything away, put on a change of clothes (the others were quite disgusting by this point) and headed out into the Canadian wild.
Whilst the town of Jasper is lovely, that is not what we were there for. We wanted to explore the surroundings. There are places you can go, such as the Miette Hot Springs, which are fantastic, and the cable car, you can also ride horses. However, we wanted to wander for a while.
So we found the nearest climbable entrance into the woods behind the town and found one of the trails and set off on our journey. We took plenty of water and some food and our cameras. We walked the trails for a couple of hours and it was fantastic. There was some truly epic scenery and we had found exactly what we were looking for. However, after another hour or so, we realised that we had come off the trail and had been following something that was not a trail. Needless to say we became lost, thankfully I was wearing my super comfortable saucony running shoes.
We did eventually find our way back and to be honest, even though it took us a few hours, we enjoyed being lost. It was a great way to see even more of the wilderness and the great scenery. If I return to Canada, I know where I am going back to.