Past and Present

My high school friend Maggie Barr, who keeps me in touch with some of our friends from FWCI, emailed me today as she was catching up on my blog. She hadn't looked at it in a while. I'm always surprised to hear that anyone other than Jay reads it at all. It's a bit of a coincidence because earlier today as we were driving down after skiing, Lynne, Priscilla and I were talking about, among other things, how Saudi Prince MbS supposedly hacked Jeff Bezos' private messages after they had shared phone numbers at a dinner party. I appeared to be the most exposed of the three of us to such activity because of my blog. We laughed a lot about the prospect of anyone even reading it let alone revealing the secrets therein. Bezos is a billionaire who has affairs; I'm not. 

Maggie interrupted her reading to send me a correction. l had misnamed the mountain in the picture I took from the dome car on the VIA train as we headed east out of Jasper. She knew the name because she had stayed in Jasper at her aunt and uncle's bungalow camp, Roche Bonhomme. From the window of her bedroom there she could see the mountain Roche Bonhomme after which the camp was named. I had called it The Sleeping Giant because that's what everyone in the dome car said it was called. As they were mostly tourists from Britain and the USA, I should have verified the name before I put it in my widely read and influential blog. 

As I read about this mountain I discovered who had named it. 

Grant Hall is one of the most prominent buildings at Queen's. It's named after this man who was Principal of Queen's College at Kingston from1877 to 1902.  When I was there, I had no idea he had named a mountain in Jasper.  

Fresh snow and sun for last Friday's snowshoe.