First a photo that says it best. I took this midway thru the 9 day adventure.
Fresh snow over night highlights the mountain.
We left Calgary at 8am on the 2nd of September, and headed south across the Alberta cowboy country of Waterton Lakes National Park.
The first stop was at Fort Macleod for lunch.
Very interesting museum inside and a great talk about the origins of the Mounties in the region.
From there the Rockies started their dramatic rise out of the rolling prairies and we reached the shores of Waterton Lake, where we would spend the next 2 nights. The wind was a bit brisk, rolling off of the lake.
High above the lake was the Prince of Wales hotel, he wasn't there, so we didn't stay either.
We walked thru the hotel and then went into town, checked into our hotel and took a walk around the small, but beautiful town of Waterton. Halfway around town we stopped and took pictures of a great waterfall. This was just one of the many cool sights.
Mornings start early on this trip... 8am we are back on the bus and heading south to the US. Yes, our Canadian Rockies tour spends a day in the US. We are going to Glacier National Park in Montana.
We ride up the 'Going-to-the-Sun' road into the heart of Glacier National Park in these restored 1930's open topped 'Red Jammers'.
Too many points of interest along the way to tell you about all of them, but one place deserves note. The rocks under this old tree are dated at 1.6 billion years old!
After the Jammer trip we lunch at St. Mary's Lodge and I buy the Bison Hat. It was one of the trip's memorable events. Oh sure the Grizzly Bears a bit later were interesting as well.
And the pit stop at Manny Glaciers Lodge was also nice.
After this we return to Canada and to our hotel in Waterton.
All 633 pictures and videos can be found in my Picasaweb folder.
To be continued in part 3
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