Today was a pretty good day. After breakfast, I watched a bit of TV, until 11am when it was warmer, and I went out for a walk on a couple of trails. The trails are at the Old Fort Point. Below are a few photos on the way. The photos that have a “fish-eye” look were from my GoPro mounted on my head. The first photo is me all rugged up for the trip. It was around minus 20C and my sore throat was getting worse so I only planned to stay outside for a maximum of 3 hours.

I was able to get up close to the top of this next photograph, but my shoes were too slippery in the snow, plus I’m not fond of narrow trails with valleys on either side, so I stopped and turned around.

I caught this deer on the tracks on my way back to the Inn. It was smart enough to get out of the way of the train thank goodness.

I also got a photo of the old train engine outside the Jasper Railway Station, as well as one of the Jasper Community Garden. It’s obviously snowed over now, but it has quite a good range of different sizes and shapes of garden plots, mulch and compost areas. So I believe it will look really good once spring comes to melt the snow.

After I got back, I flipped between some of the current affairs shows for the reaction to the President-elect’s news conference yesterday. Very interesting, also his tweets and some of the interviewing of his nominations for department heads being cross-examined by their Senate committees. Some of these people seem quite sensible, so he’s likely to not end up doing too much of the stuff he wants to, if they have any say in it. I am unsure why I am so fascinated by this. But it is interesting to watch.