In the following pages Ken brings to life the people and events that shaped our mountain commu- nities from the 1920s to the present day. [...] She said what really got to her was when they had to light the lamp in the middle of the afternoon because they couldn't see with all of the dust flying around. [...] Apparently the salt kept the skis from backslipping and the oil from the her- ring kept the snow from sticking. [...] We would work right close to the fire and if the wind switched direction, it was easy to find yourself in the middle of the fire instead of on the outside. [...] I was lucky, the Smokies asked me to play for them for the rest of the playoffs.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 971.1/03/092
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-bc
- ISBN
- 9781459332430 0921102453
- LCCN
- F1090
- LCCN Item number
- J66 1996eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaBVAU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (192 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00604614 (OCoLC)605743384 (CaOOCEL)420042
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- NLC
Table of Contents
- Contents 4
- Foreword 6
- Introduction 8
- Richard Kenneth Jones 8
- 1 The Early Years 9
- The Early Years 10
- 2 Good Times at Skoki 20
- Ken is introduced to Skoki Lodge 21
- The Wolverine Cabin 25
- Packing with Sam Evans 27
- Lizzie Rummel 29
- The Avalanche 30
- Ken's Near Miss 32
- Ray Legace 33
- Ken Jones takes over as Manager of Skoki Lodge 35
- Yorkshire Pudding 36
- Getting Business Again 37
- 3 Langlaufen—Have Skis, will Race 38
- Off to the Races 39
- The Flivver 42
- The Skoki Classic 45
- The Canadian Ski Championships—1939 45
- 4 The World of Guiding 47
- Ken's First Mountaineering Client—Katie Gardiner 48
- Climbing with the Crosbys 55
- The Fraser Party in Ice River valley 60
- Mount Louis 74
- Climbing in the Freshfields with the Wiebrecht Family 75
- Climbing with the Iowa Mountaineers 79
- Climbing with the Iowa Mountaineers continued 88
- 5 The Alpine Club of Canada 93
- The Alpine Club of Canada at Assiniboine Provincial Park 94
- The ACC at Yoho National Park 96
- The ACC Bugaboo Camp 99
- The ACC at Mount Robson Provincial Park 99
- 6 The Swiss Cheeses 104
- The Chateau Lake Louise 105
- The Moose That Wouldn't Go Away 105
- Ed's Grizzly Encounter 110
- 7 Trophies and Fish Tales 114
- Hunting Memories 115
- Hunting with the Bill Krippner Party 117
- A Real Fish Story 122
- 8 Northern Exposure 126
- Getting an Engineering Job 127
- To the Yukon 127
- The Glacier Worm Cocktail 129
- The Cussing Parrot 130
- Patsy Henderson 131
- Flying in the Yukon 132
- The Camp 132
- Shorty the Cook 133
- The Work 134
- Camp Life 136
- The Story of the Black Death 137
- The Story of the Moose Loin Nugget 146
- Wolves 146
- Robert Service 147
- The End of the Engineering Career 148
- 9 Off to War 149
- Flying those Expensive Toys 150
- Training Mountain Troops 153
- Commando Jones 158
- 10 Num-Ti-Jah Lodge 160
- Jimmy Simpson 161
- Num-Ti-Jah 162
- 11 The Assiniboine Years 167
- First Contact 168
- Starting to Work at Assiniboine 171
- Taking A Novice Up Assiniboine 172
- The Fifties with Erling and Lizzie 174
- Climbing with Sylvia, Ruta and Peter 175
- The Genisee Valley Mountaineers 177
- The Warden Years 178
- Getting the Job 179
- Getting to Work 180
- Fishing and Fishermen 182
- The Fishermen from Hell 182
- Bears at Assiniboine 185
- The Hiker Who Went AWOL 187
- Accidents and near Misses 188
- A Hole in the Head 190
- The End of the Warden Career 192
- Ken Jones in July 1995 193
