By Dale Callingham
Splendor knows no season
in the Canadian Rockies.
Winter, spring, summer, fall
— they all have their own
charm, offering scenery and
activities.

Autumn in the Rockies is
particularly enjoyable.
Summer crowds have gone
back to the cities leaving
behind a peaceful and
beautiful land. Crisp
greenery turns a_ soft,
shimmering gold in the
lower mountain regions, and
wildlife comes into view
tote” fréquetitly.."' The
chances of spotting deer, elk
or black bears are excellent.

In Waterton Lakes
National Park, in southern
Alberta, the mountains glow
red, purple and gold due to
ore deposits, and crystal-
clear waterfalls and lakes
sparkle in the landscape.

For a change of scene from
all this natural beauty, there
are nearby attractions. At
Lethbridge, there is Nikka
Yuko, one of the largest
Japanese gardens in North
America, and Fort Whoop-up
which is a replica, as the
name might suggest, of a
major whiskey-trading fort
of the 1970's.

There is also Fort Macleod
which marks the end of the
westward trek of the North
West Mounted Police in 1994. '

For Macleod is a treasury of
historical material including
the Macleod Hotel house
rules from September 1,
1892; ‘‘All guests are
requested to rise at 6 a.m.
This is imperative as the
sheets are needed for table-
cloths’'...."Assaults on the
cook are strictly prohibited”
and...“‘Boarders who get
killed will not be allowed to
remain in the house’’.
Farther north, in the heart
of the Canadian Rockies, is
Banff, Canada’s oldest
national park, now con-
sisting of 2,564 Squate miles.
Banff National Park is an
open invitation to hikers,
horseback riders, .
photographers, artists
campers and nature lovers
in general. If you're a little
more sedentary, enjoy the
view from your car or try the
gondola lift up Sulphur
Mountain which operates
until November 6 this year.
Or, you can glide up Mount
Norquay on a cablecar or
open chair. Just about a
metre above the ground, the
988 metre long (3,240-foot)
cablecar lift rises a vertical
distance of more than 396 m
(1,300 feet), and brings you
safely and comfortably to
the 2,135 m (7,000-foot) level
in only seven minutes
At the top you can lunch at
the Cliffhouse or, if you bring

Tossed tarts just
one small pitfall

TORONTO (CP) — The
story goes that one woman
who entered the baking
contest held about 15 years
ago at the Canadian National
Exhibition was so irate when
her butter tarts didn’t win a
vrize that she tossed them at
the judges.

That's just one of the bits
of nostalgia told by Peggy
Haslem, contest co-ordinator
for the CNE women‘!
division which continues to
draw hundreds of entries
each year from Canadians
with a talent for creating
handicrafts.

The handicraft and baking
exhibits are displayed innthe

_ exhibition's Better Living
Building. This year—the
CNE's centennial—the staff
of the women’s division has
been hard at work ta
recreate some of the past
glories.

For instance, there is an
65-year-old quilt which won
the top award at the CNE in
1914, It was hand-quilted by
the late Mrs. Hannah
Moscrop of Toronto. Her
daughter-in-law offered it to
this year's exhibit and it
hangs alongside two of this
year's award-winners.

Entries have come in from
the United States and
Scotland, Mra. Haslem said
in an Interview prior to the
opening, “and a surprising
number of men have won

Judges in all

for their ex
particular field, said Mrs.

Haslem.
JUDGE FOOD SECTIONSn

In the cooking and baking
sections, magazine food
editors and home economists
from large Canadian food
companies will judge the
competition Aug. 29.

The CNE has attracted as
many as5,000 craft entries in
a year andhiast year had
2,300.

The food entries now are
judged and sent home with
their owners on the same
day. At one time, they were
displayed in glass cases even
though it was August and
there was no refrigeration.

Prize money is nominal
and it hardly has changed
since 1905 when prizes were
$2 and $5. By the 1940s
awards were §6 and this year
there are a few §20 and $25
prizes in the handicraft
categories, but most range
from $6 to $10,

Also to mark the cen-
tennial there will be 12
cenlennial rooms to show
how Canadians decorated
their homes from 1970 to
1978.

There also are 15 con-
temporary rooms on display
showing the latest design,
furnishings and accessories
all of which are available to
Canadian consumers.:

Also to celebrate the
centennial, the women's
division is holding a fashion
showcase covering 100 years
of fashion for childrennand
women.

The CNE opens today and
runs until Sept. 4 at
Exhibition Place. n

Autumn in the Rockies

your own lunch, at one of the
many picnic tables. If you’re
not hungry, just feast on the
beautiful panorama and
fresh air. This is great
picture-taking country and,
because it's off-season, you
meedn’t worry about un-
wanted subjects darting into
your viewfinder,

The cablecars operate
through September,
although they may clase for
the day if the weather is bad.

A drive north along the
stunningly-beautifui Icefield
Parkway to Jasper will take
you through the famous
Columbia Icefield. Along the
way you'll see the enormous
Athabasca Glacier, first
discovered by wilderness
explorers in 1898 and now
one of the most studied
glaciers in the world, mainly
because of its accessibility.

Signs warn tourists to stay
off the ice unless registered
at one of the self-registration
stations or with a park
warden. However, you can
get onto the ice cheaply and
safely by taking 4
snowmobile tour, a concept
unique to Canada.

The glacier is eight km
long Uive miles) and one km
(.75 miles) wide. The
snowmobiles take visitors to
its mid-point where they can
get out briefly, take pictures
(even down dangerous mill-
wells where meltwater
swirls down shafts to the
depths of the ice) and absorb
the majesty. of the icefalls
and mountains.

The eightenn 10-seater
snowmobiles anda 28-seater,
as well as a bus converted to
a tracked vehicle, run every
day until mid-September no
matter what the weather
condition.

Another popular fall ac-
tivity in the Rockies is
hiking, short trips for the
novice and longer back-
packing treks for the more
experienced.

Picture yourself hiking up
a mountain trail with a
cooling breeze at your back,
while carpets of pine rustle
below you and sheltered
lakes glisten.

Everything, save the
breeze through the trees and
perhaps a foraging squirrel,
is quiet, and all you have to
do is breathe that cool
mountain air to know this is

- evergreens.

what hiking is really all
about.

Although the Rockies
cannot boast the scarlet and
gold fall foliage of Canada’s
central and eastern
provinces, they do haye their
own color. Cold, clear,
turquoise lakes and rivers
sparkle through gold valley
larch, and soaring, white,
snow-capped mountain
peaks halo = rustling
The clash of
green pines and gold larch
and aspen, carpeted with red
undergrowth and shrubbery,
makes Rocky fall foliage
distinctively beautiful.

Camping is another
natural for the fail. You have
a wider choice of campsites
due to the absence of sum-
mer crowds and that quiet
solitude every camper looks:
for is right outside your tent
flap, to say nothing of the
exquisite scenery. Have you
ever noticed how much
better coffee and fried eggs
taste on a crisp, quiet fall
morning just before an in
vigorating walk throught the
woods?

The colorful scenery of the
Rockies of today reflects an
equally colorful past,
displayed and explained for
you at numerous sites and
museums.

Plaques and cairns are
sprinkled throughout the
Rockies explaining the

significance of specific spots -

and of course. these are
visible year-round,

The signs pointing out the
Frank Slide disaster of 1903
is perhaps the saddest
commemoration. At 4:10
a.m., while the town of
Frank slept, 90 million tons
of rock thundered down over
the valley, destroying part af
the town, claiming 70 lives,
and burying an entire mine
plant and railway, all within
100 seconds. —

There are also numerous
museums in the Rockies,
most of which are open in the
fall and many of which are
ree. '

The list of fall activities in
the Canadian Rockies is
almost endless. The best
thing to do is go and see for
yourself. The quiet majesty
of the autumn Rockies won't
disannnint you.

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