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The Jasper Local // ISSUE 171 // SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 2020

EDITORIAL //

Local Vocal Oh, how I long for the simpler days of 2019.

You know, when we felt put out to not have a working waterslide, when staff shortages were merely a product of housing scarcity and when you could carpool to a trailhead, sneeze in a crowded restaurant or high five a total stranger with nary a second thought.

And our community quarrelling? It wasn’t about the merits of mask-wearing to help ward off a spreading pandemic. One year ago, it had to do with the effectiveness of banning plastic bags to help cutdown on the world’s pollution problem. How cute.

Here’s the thing, though: there are many parallels between the two talking points.

First of all, there’s the rationale. The big-picture philosophy behind banning plastic bags was about collective action for community health. It was about doing our small part to help curtail a big problem at the inconvenience of our residents and visitors—and at the considerable expense of our business community.

Then there was the campaign—both mandating masks and banning bags started as a call for action from the proletariat, the people with the most to lose. With the bag ban, it was students with bright futures who led the charge to curb our disposable consumption habits. Today, the mask-missionaries shouting from the rooftops (albeit more commonly, their laptops) tend to be older folks, people who feel vulnerable to coronavirus or who have at-risk family members.

Regardless, the call for legislation has been from a groundswell of voices attempting to speed up the changing of social norms. “Other communities are doing it,” they point out. “It’s the right thing to do,” they sing. These were the same strategies employed a year ago to sway council to implement a bag ban. In both cases, those calling for action seem to have been heard.

And of course the oppositional arguments look and feel identical. There’s the freedom fighters, i.e., “making me bring a canvas tote or wear a spit shield impinges on my rights!” There’s the self-made scientists, who can dig up studies showing why paper bags ruin our forests and how cloth masks are not just ineffective but lesssafe than going without. And of course you’ve got the straight-up trolls, whose preferred way of debating a point is to meme you into oblivion. Current favourites include images of sheep being herded, mosquitoes flying through chain link fences and Justin Trudeau in blackface (not related to COVID, they just like to sneak that one in there).

My position is that I’d rather be safe than sorry. I can put on a mask for essential trips in crowded spaces. I won’t like it, but like the plastic debate, I can look down the road and see which side of history I’d rather be on.

So if you’re all hot and bothered in protest of the new mask bylaw—or in justification of it, for that matter— remember that this is merely our latest fish to fry.

By this time next year, mask wearing will either be normalized or a non-issue.

Like the simpler problems of 2019, this too shall pass.

BOB COVEY // bob@thejasperlocal.com

The Jasper Local acquires ESP! Like many, Emilie St. Pierre landed in Jasper without a plan or any intentions of staying long-term.

That was in 2009. Originally from Ottawa, Emilie had spent more than 10 years working a variety of weird and wonderful jobs in the tourism sector before going back to school for Digital Media Design at Vancouver Community College in 2018. After spending two years in Vancouver, Emilie is back in town and she couldn’t be happier.

A simple creature, she enjoys beer, bikes, cheezies, coffee, hiking, hockey, podcasts and skiing. Look

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LOOKING FOR A BUMP // Jasper’s Estelle Blanchette and Alberta Premier Jason Kenney share a safe salute while JNP Superintendent Alan Fehr and Tourism Jasper’s Lisa Darrah look on. Kenney was in Jasper to explore the challenges and barriers that the tourism industry is facing in the wake of COVID-19. // SUPPLIED

Local delegates elbowing province to advocate for tourism industry Staff shortages, provincial partnerships, transportation linkages and the importance of the temporary foreign worker program were just

some of the topics on the table when Alberta’s premier, Jason Kenney, and Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Tourism (EDTT), Tayna Fir, visited Jasper as part of their roundtable tour with the tourism industry August 4.

Jasper delegates included stakeholders with Tourism Jasper as well as Jasper National Park Superintendent Alan Fehr and Jasper Mayor Richard Ireland.

The idea around the tourism roundtable was to explore the challenges and barriers that the industry and the community are facing economically, according to

EDTT press secretary, Justin Brattinga.

Mayor Ireland kept his comments brief to allow local tourism professionals to share their feedback but made the point that he endorsed the the recommendations from a Tourism Industry Association of Alberta report, which call for a whole of government approach to tourism and for the appointment of the EDTT Minister as the Minister responsible for national park engagement and advocacy.

If that appointment takes place, “that will, in my view, indicate a very successful meeting,” Ireland said.

Mike Day of Evil Dave’s Grill and who also sits on Tourism Jasper’s Strategic Marketing Council was optimistic the government’s 10-year tourism strategy, which will

support the development of the province’s tourism industry as it rebuilds following COVID-19, will help with Jasper’s recovery. “[Kenney] was definitely well informed of the challenges facing tourism,” Day said.

Also invited to the roundtable were Jasper’s Paul Hardy (SunDog Tours and Transportation); Marc Wawrin (Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge); Jason Patterson (Marmot Basin); Lisa Darrah (Rockaboo Mountain Adventures); Todd Noble (Jasper SkyTram); Richard Cooper (Jasper Park Chamber of Commerce); Dave McKenna (Pursuit Banff/Jasper Collection); and Estelle Blanchette (Jasper Food Tours).

West Yellowhead MLA Martin Long was also in attendance.

BOB COVEY // bob@thejasperlocal.com

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The Jasper Local // ISSUE 171 // SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 2020

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LOCAL COVID-19

An American in Jasper: Finding refuge in the Rockies vigilante justice.

When ultrarunner Kim Bessler left her truck at the Signal Mountain parking lot on the morning of August 9, she was crossing her fingers for what the majority hikers, runners and backcountry campers hope for before setting off on Jasper’s famous Skyline Trail: good weather, dry trails and a nice breeze to keep the bugs at bay.

Bessler had good reason to be optimistic: the forecast was for clear skies and the recent heat wave had dried up most of the Skyline’s soggy spots.

Unlike most trail users, however, Bessler had another niggling concern in the back of her mind as she scampered along at 2,500 metres-elevation: her truck. More specifically, her Colorado license plate, and what kind of scrutiny—or worse—it would attract.

“I’ve seen these people going through to Alaska and getting ticketed,” Bessler said. “I’ve heard of people’s vehicles getting vandalized.”

Bessler is an American. She’s originally from New York, but spent her formative years in Colorado. Since August 2018, however, she’s been an international student at the University of British Columbia. Canada has become her adopted home. However, because of the prohibitive expense of importing her beloved Toyota 4Runner into the country, she’s still running with her U.S. plates. That was fine, until the COVID pandemic was declared and the border closed. All of a sudden, her Colorado plates were a badge of shame.

“It’s anxiety-inducing when you have

“If you see my vehicle and I’m not with it, by all means, call the cops if it makes you that uncomfortable.

Leave a note. But don’t vandalize, don’t go to Facebook and perpetuate fear, anxiety and divisiveness.”

There are several legitimate reasons an dians know she’s a student at UBC, has a Canadian address and that American might be she has an exemption from COVID travel restrictions. // BOB COVEY in Canada right now.

Temporary workers, someone driving permanent resident “I get it, I wouldn’t behind you,” she said. visa holders, accredited “You swear they’re want Americans officials and international judging you.” students can all be exempt coming over the from current COVID-19 Bessler wasn’t just being border and running travel restrictions. Bessler, paranoid. In Banff, rampant either.” who four years ago visited Americans have been Jasper National Park ticketed as much as while on a road trip from $1,200 for being in Canada for optional Denver, made it a goal to come back when or discretionary purposes. Here in she had more time to explore, climb, run Jasper, Sgt. Rick Bidaisee said nine calls and hike. So when she got accepted into for service have been registered to local UBC and began working on her masters RCMP regarding the prevalence of U.S. thesis—developing a biodegradable residents being in Jasper National Park. plastic—she knew it would only be a No tickets have been handed out. matter of time until she would get back to “The limited calls for service did not the Rockies. warrant the use of any contravention LICENSE TO CHILL // American Kim Bessler’s window sign lets Cana-

options,” Bidaisee told The Jasper Local.

Bessler isn’t worried about being approached by a cop. As an international student, her being in Canada is completely legal. She’s more concerned about so-called

But then COVID hit and she was forced to stay put in her North Vancouver basement suite. The lack of contact with people, the constant rain and the longing to get out in the hills had Bessler in a funk. Her

dad finally suggested she get back to the Rockies she fell in love with in 2016, but Bessler was nervous about driving through communities and corridors where people were hostile to U.S. “trespassers.”

“I get it, I wouldn’t want Americans coming over the border and running rampant either,” she said.

To mitigate the potential friction with people who she might come into contact with, Bessler called ahead. She phoned the Jasper RCMP to ask what their protocols were when faced with a U.S.registered vehicle. She also put a query out to locals through the Jasper Trails Facebook page on whether or not she’d find it difficult to visit. The responses she received convinced her to make the trip.

“I’d say 90 per cent of people were sympathetic,” she said.

So she came to Jasper. But before she got onto the Skyline Trail (and the Berg Lake Trail, and the Lake O’Hara circuit, for that matter) she prepared proof of her legal status. She photocopied her student visa, her passport, insurance papers and B.C. apartment’s lease. She wrote out a detailed note, to be left on her dash whenever she was away from her vehicle, explaining her situation for anyone who was suspicious.

If it seems like overkill, to Bessler, it’s simply covering her bases.

“I don’t like what’s going on in America either,” she shrugged. “But just because you see American plates doesn’t mean the person snuck in.

“We’re all human. his pandemic is affecting us all in one way or another.”

BOB COVEY // bob@thejasperlocal.com

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The Jasper Local // ISSUE 171 // SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 2020

FEATURE // LOCAL ADVENTURE // PHOTOS BY DAVID AND LIAM HARRAP

The Corona Triple Crown

By David Harrap As the proverb says, there’s a time for everything under the sun. If ever the time was right to climb the mountain that I’d first seen nine years ago, it was now.

The Siffleur Wilderness (east of Banff NP) is a lonely place on your own. I’d been caught there twice in September and October blizzards. I’d been there in better weather and looked with longing at the mountain curling like an insolent lip into the sky. I just had to pluck up the courage.

Every year Liam would ask, “Well, have you gone up that mountain yet?”

“You bloomin’ well know I haven’t!”

“Oh, chicken, eh!”

“Damn right.” My knees knocked every time I saw the mountain.

Liam was way ahead, and when I reached the col I knew things were dicey. Normally he’d be shouting down It’s OK, Dad! It’s fine! I had worried about what we might find on the north side of the col: namely a big cornice and a long snow slope. I wasn’t wrong.

mountain was more

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“See what you think, Dad,” he said, gingerly. “There is a gap in the cornice.”

“Griz had come I took a look.

“Bloomin’ hell!

Liam—How’d you reckon the snow is?”

Liam had bombed it with a couple of rocks to see if anything broke loose. Nothing.

down with his crampons on, which by all accounts needed a good sharpening.”

It wasn’t written in the tea leaves, but if I was ever to get up the mountain 2020 was the year for it.

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We fo green amon snow our ba camp.

By now Liam had muscled in on the quest, which certainly bolstered my flagging courage; and like a pitiless taskmaster I knew he’d keep me up to snuff.

It looked like the wrong time as we set off beside the fast-running creek.

Liam crossed on a fallen tree. I was too scared.

Like the CNR and the CPR going up the Fraser Canyon, we made faces at each other across the creek, Liam cockily smirking at his old man stuck on the wrong side.

“Just you wait, Buster,” I yelled. “Higher up you’ve got to cross back.”

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Next day we headed back into winter. Avalanches broke from cornices and poured over cliffs of Spreading Peak, keeping us entertained as we scrambled up bare rock to a col, and our first look at the mountain we’d come to climb.

“We don’t have to do it, Dad, if you don’t want to.” I didn’t want to, the route stank, but the thought of traversing all the way around a

Liam went to spy out tomorrow, which wo start he informed me

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than I could bear.

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“It would be for the old fogies at Summit Lodge.” (He was always threatening to put me there.) “Make it six-thirty, then.”

There was a long snow slope above a cliff band that would get us onto the spine of the mountain. I scrambled through the cliffs. Liam was waiting by the snow. “Guess what, Dad! Those weren’t people tracks I’d seen from the other side of the basin. They’re grizzly tracks! He slid down here—just

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When we reached the top of the slope we saw exactly where he’d come from.

We looked down at tracks over snow, over a glacier, past a blue ringed little lake that reminded me of Angelina Jolie’s lips. Those great grizzly laps in that endless quest for grub and a mate.

We passed to the left of towers, down to a col then onto the spine of the mountain. “How far’s the summit, do you reckon?” Liam ignored the question, and I immediately knew why.

For I, too, had just glimpsed a tiny pile of rock way in the far distance, about where Mars would be at night. “Bloody hell, Liam, it’s miles! I’ve got to have a sit down.”

“Oh, tired are we?” (He always reverts to the Queen Victoria when he’s being facetious.)

“Damn right. I was knackered when I came out of the tent.”

There was a cairn and a small register.

Someone came three years ago. Liam cut up a lime and shoved wedges into the neck of two bottles of Corona beer.

Then we took out masks for the photoshoot.

Next morning at camp Liam noticed a black speck slowly moving towards the gap in the cornice we’d come through two days before. It was our pal Griz. His tracks going up now, past ours coming down. He’d been with us for two nights on the plateau.

yesterday!”

And by golly! Griz had come down with his crampons on, which by all accounts needed a good sharpening. He had glissaded on his paws, slid on his bum, rocketed down the snow having one hell of a ride. Our tracks going up: his coming down.

“Can you imagine, Liam. if we’d been coming up and he’d suddenly appeared over the brow of the slope, sailed past roaring Well how ya boys doin’? You’d have snapped a picture that would have gone viral, and we’d be made for life.” (Which in my case was no big deal.)

We came out a different way—and to a sting in the tail of our trip: A traverse of a steep snow slope with a run-out into a mesmerizing ice lake; and two hundred metres of avalanched busted trees that took an hour to clamber across.

Oh, the name of the mountain?— wow! I almost forgot. CORONA RIDGE. So like Secretariat we’d done the Triple Crown.

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harrap2017@gmail.com Jasper’s David Harrap is the author of the soon-to-be-published book Over The Mountains, Under The Stars. His idea of an alpine start may be different than his son’s, but they both agree that cold beer is perfect for an alpine finish.

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LOCAL COMMUNITY

Fruit Truck and Jasper Farmers’ Market a peachy pair Jonathan Deuling has always enjoyed indulging in the earth’s bounty.

“When I was growing up I was always passionate about going into mom’s garden and picking peas, carrots and cherries,” he remembers.

While Deuling never thought he’d one day make a living as a garden grazer, he admits owning and operating the B.C. Fruit Truck is a pretty good fit for he and his wife. Deuling is thankful that, 10 years ago, he had the chance to purchase the truck from his brother-in-law, a happenstance acquisition that came with a list of potential fruit clients.

B.C., via Valemount’s Saturday market.

“You learn to pray” Jonathan says about keeping the business on schedule during the 1,500 km loop. Last week they were hampered by the break-down of their other truck, hauling peaches.

“You pay the mechanic whatever you need to in order to get things back on track,” he says.

No matter what, Deuling makes certain to get to Jasper. Besides being the “It’s the only job that I can keep,” he first farmers’ market on laughed. “I was a music teacher and his circuit, it’s by far the lasted one month busiest. A typical before I got day in Jasper will fired.” have 400 customers, “The Jasper Farmers’ BERRY GOOD HELP // Jonathan Deuling and members of his Jasper market crew. The B.C. Fruit Truck compared to other And it has been Market is a lot makes its first stop in Jasper before delivering its Okanagan goods to other Alberta markets. // B COVEY markets where he a fruitful career. of hard work but only serves about 40.

Not just for the mistakes on customers’ orders. suggestion to heart­­—which is where without it we would business, but for “Jasper is a lot of hard work, but he holds a special place for the Jasper “But people gave me second chances,” the communities have never made it.” without it we would have never Farmers’ Market. he says. “Now I have a lot more it serves. made it.” experience and a few tricks up my “I love the way [Farmers Markets] Deuling’s week The B.C. Fruit Truck was one of sleeve.” bring people together,” he said. “It’s starts off in B.C.’s Okanagan Valley the Jasper Farmers’ Market’s original like transforming summertime fruit As he chats, Deuling checks in with on Monday morning. There, he loads vendors. And while the market means into year-round community.” his staff to ensure the fruit stand his 24-foot refrigerated truck with a lot to his business, it’s a mutuallyremains orderly.

He explains that there He says he’ll forever be grateful for apples, peaches, nectarines, cherries beneficial relationship. As other are certain fruits that should not travel this opportunity that his brother-inand a smorgasbord of berries before vendors know well, the B.C. Fruit when they are ripe and that carrots law tossed him out of the blue. heading to Jasper on Wednesday.

Truck brings the crowds. can keep for a long time—possibly Thursday brings three different “I’ve made very intimate relationships “Jonathan is such a positive person to the whole winter, if you store them in markets: Sangudo, Mayerthorpe and with people in every community I have around,” says Coco’s Café’s Lynn sand.

Barrhead; followed by another three serve,” he says. “And none of this Wannop. “He’s invested.” markets on Friday in Fort Assiniboine, Another fruit truck owner advised would be possible without the Jasper Not that he hasn’t made his share of Westlock and Spruce Grove. A quick Deuling to “make sure your quality Local Food Society and the market business blunders. Deuling says that turnaround allows Deuling just is 100 per cent and guarantee every managers.” enough time to head home to Quesnel, in the early years there was often a lot piece of fruit you sell.” He took the EMILIE ST. PIERRE // bob@thejasperlocal.com of food waste. Sometimes, he made

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LOCAL SOCIAL MEDIA

Anonymous meme-maker has #MyJasper prollies pegged Social media hasn’t been the same since @Jasper_Local_Memes (no affiliation) took to Instagram. The account specializes in satirizing life in Jasper, giving a celebratory face-palm to lost tourists, rookie raft guides and ill-advised adventures alike. We interviewed the mysterious person behind the posts.

much every type of job in Jasper, from restaurants, hotels, retail, Marmot Basin, and a few others that might reveal my identity if the right person connected the dots. Having parents that essentially used the national park as a babysitter I think is what gave me a lot of perspective. I just got to experience so much that way.

For our audience that doesn’t have Instagram: What is a meme and how do you describe your account?

A meme is meant to be a reflection of reality, it’s like the modern day political cartoon. Usually it’s a photo or video with some sort of funny text caption that’s intended to resonate with a certain community or group of people. My account is a way to make locals laugh at ourselves, and an attempt to turn our everyday realities into an “inside joke” that the community can find humour in. The account is for everyone, but some of the current events and mundane representations that I’m sharing may only make sense to people who have spent a lot of time in Jasper.

Opinion columnists have sources and academics have studies to help inform their comments on current events. What are some of the ways you take a read on Jasper’s happenings?

What/who are some of your favourite local Instagram accounts to follow and what makes these must-follows for you?

I’ve always liked @explorejasper content.

Eddie [Wong] does a good job of showing you the true essence of the park. Following the #myjasper hashtag is also great, there are some extremely talented content creators and photographers that roll through Jasper and it’s always good to see a fresh perspective on some of the places that we often take for granted as locals.

What, in general, makes Jasper so great at providing fodder for memes?

Living in a small town, especially one that revolves around tourism, the script basically writes itself. There are so many age-old themes in the community, and if you’ve lived here long enough, the same issues seem to come up over and over again until they seem to just become a part of your everyday understanding of this place. The fact that Jasper is such a close knit community where word gets around fast also helps write memes —whenever there is a new topic that becomes the “talk of the town,” it can

be seamlessly turned into a new meme.

Besides making dank Jasper memes, what can you tell us about yourself?

My family roots are pretty deep in town as a multi-generation Jasperite. I grew up enjoying all that the park has to offer: shredding Marmot, ripping the bike trails and getting into the backcountry.

My strongest childhood memories come from me and my friends just having the park at our disposal to “cause mayhem.”

There are too many great memories to narrow it down. I have worked pretty

If something noteworthy is happening, usually everyone in town will be talking about it, so I just keep my ears open. Reading The Jasper Local is also a great way to keep informed, you post legit stories about locals and local happenings.

Also shout-out to Jasper Buy/Sell/Trade because there is always gold to find on there!

How many of your friends know the identity of the person behind Jasper Local Memes?

Only one person knows and that’s my partner who is sworn to secrecy.

Answers have been condensed to fit this format BOB COVEY // bob@thejasperlocal.com

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