For two years in Ee row now |.
the . Alaska® Highway. chas ©
been washed out ‘by « normal:

July, ‘run-off from the:moun-::

tains, causing. as -many..as:
3,000 tourists to be ‘stranded:
in Fort Nelson for two. weeks...
and almost doubling | the:

population of British Col- -

umbia’s - most _hortheriy

. two: big. events of the year

‘the Trappers’ ‘Rendezvous in

’ early March and the Todeo

: mid-August. People’ ‘come.
~ from as far away. as Toronto;

. Old ‘Crow:and’ various. cities -

‘in«the . United” ‘States to
participate: ‘in these events.
The rendezvous is‘a celebra-
tion of winter, . with “snow-
_ Shoeing, - ‘dog-team racing,
~ Snowmobiling, : flour-packing

- anda dozen other winter

_ -
make. “your stay“ D

7 ‘Nelson a-mor

case: an enforced: stop whil
driving to Alaska. Oars,

a: the: spl
of. dark green spruce, the
; dea eree en

“Once ‘oriented, take’ a ti ficre -

» intimate look’ at "the town: It~

is just: the right size, in the °. pioneering

|. tight place.and with the right
‘amount: of history. to. make

the. traveller: feel. iwéleome: i

peal ae
houses, i it uséd to. be:a. ‘busy.

barrack

Ort she wn ee
reach ‘Old f Fott elson, actoss, .

nevi the: tlver. Catching ‘a. ride ®

753-1261.

‘un va! , ae '

municatione | —o Jack ¢ Davis.

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