SG025 - The Athabasca River Traditional Geocache

Although this cache is not be the rive the big island is not that far away as the crow flies. There is a trail into this cache site that is not that rough. Great place to walk your dog or stretch your legs. It may be accessible by wheel chair.  

The Athabasca River starts at the Columbia Glacier Of the Columbia Ice Field in Jasper National Park. It travels 1,231 kilometers before draining into the Peace Athabasca Delta near Lake Athabasca and Fort Chipewyan. It name in Cree is aoapaskaw or where there are plants one after another. It was the border between territories before Alberta became a province in 1905. For its importance in the fur trade and construction of railways and roads that opened up the Canadian west it has been designated as Canadian Heritage River. This area was one of the main centers of that activity. If you have the opportunity to spend time on the river think of all who have gone before you. The banks have seen Aboriginals in their canoes using the river as their highway, the fur traders and trappers moving their goods along in canoes and scows, the steam boats being pulled along by trackers, the men going to the Klondike Gold Rush, and the log booms being driven downstream. Canoe, kayak and boating trips are for pleasure are now but the river flows on.