We had a busy day yesterday. We had made an appointment to get a grooming session for Kona in Valemount (a hour east of McBride). After we dropped Kona off at Critter Care, we had a lot of time to kill before she would be done, so we drove east for another hour and go to Jasper. There we visited with our friends John and Di, who had generously picked up some of Kona’s medicine for us at the Jasper Vet’s on Friday (The vet clinic wasn’t open on the weekend).
Jasper is still recovering from the massive and destructive wildfire that swept through the townsite last summer. We were curious about how it was doing. While the mountains that surround Jasper were denuded of its tree cover and looked pretty dismal last winter, at least now they were starting to show a bit of green as plants and small trees start to establish themselves on the burnt slopes.
We found a surprisingly large number of tourists in Jasper, milling around and visiting the shops and restaurants that weren’t destroyed by the fire. It was good to see so many tourists because they will help Jasper recover economically. Jasper was left with only two gas stations that weren’t destroyed and they were both very busy with cars lined up on the street waiting to buy gas.
After a bit of shopping in Jasper, we headed back to Valemount to pick up Kona, who always looks like a totally different dog after a haircut.
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