Hostelling… cheap, but oh so cosy…
The hostel was a few kms out of Jasper on the road up Whistlers Mountain. A little more rustic than the equivalent lodgings in Banff and Lake Louise, it nonetheless had everything a backpacking traveller could need. And probably with so much space in Jasper’s beautiful outdoors, they figured you could do without it indoors.
I just revisited their website, which says: “Our larger than normal dorm style accommodation may require a sense of humour.” They’re not wrong. Still I should be grateful that of the 30 beds, only three of them had a snoring inhabitant.