This film is a heritage item from Library and Archives Canada and is only available in English.

Dressed in a suit, a pork pie hat, and a suitcase, Bill arrives from New York City via train to spend a vacation with his old friend Fred. Fred lives in the Alberta Rocky Mountains and has invited Bill to accompany him on a trip over the Athabasca Trail. The first advice that Fred gives to Bill is to "discard your city tugs and try on these leather pants." Properly dressed, the men pack their horses and head off to Jasper Park Lodge for a day in order to make the trip easy on Bill. Jasper Park Lodge is shown to be "groups of rustic lodges modernly equipped" that are nestled amongst the trees. The group head down to the docks to board canoes for a quiet trip out on Lac Beauvert, which Bill prefers over "the gasoline saturated air of Times Square." Returning to the lodge, Bill wants to join a card party but Fred takes him and two ladies to "the scenic wonders of Maligne River Canons". Shots of men sitting on rocks overlooking the rapids of the river are shown, while several people watch the rapids from the bridge spanning across the river. Bringing the two ladies back to the Lodge veranda, Fred and Bill decide to leave the lodge and set up a campsite before nightfall. The next morning, Fred induces Bill for a climb to absorb some scenery from an elevation, where they can see in the distance Mount Tekarra, "the watchtower of the Rockies". Despite all the majestic scenery, Bill is hungry and is more interested in "a few finny rainbow trout in a hot frying pan." The group go down to fish off the dock of the lake, some even going out on rafts to cast off in the middle of the lake. The men return to camp after marvelling over the catches of the day, stopping at the river for their horses to drink. Night falls as a lone figure watches the sunset, and in the morning, Old Sol wakes up early to remind the group that it was time to go back. As the men are shown preparing to dismantle the campsite and start on their way home, a final intertitle displaying a quote attributed to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle concludes the film: "But the last and best and sweetest is the ride by hill and dale, with the packer and the pack-horse on the Athabasca Trail."

Source: Library and Archives Canada. Graphic Consultants fonds, 1972-0105, IDC 336742.