Monday, July 26, 2010

touring with Kathleen

Had two beautiful days at the Buffalo Plains campground. Matt joined us and we all went to visit "Head smashed in buffalo jump" in the morning and it was quite interesting. As it was a warm day we drove to the Oldman river and Kathleen, Sue and Matt went on the "floaties" and drifted down the river to Fort McLeod. I was the designated driver and found a place to off road a bit which led to the river and I picked them up from the river about 3 hours later. Back at the campground I bar-b-qued steaks for supper and we had a nice campfire then watched the "Edge" a movie about 3 guys in the wilderness stalked by a grizzly bear. Sunday morning we all packed up and Kathleen and Matt said their goodbyes and headed back to Calgary while Sue and I headed south with no plans or reservations for the night. After a 3 hour drive we arrived at St. Mary glacier national park and decided to see if they had a site for the night which they did but only for one night. Sooooo we set up camp and headed over the road to the sun road what a trip beautiful scenery on a narrow windy road that was limited to vehicles 21 ft. long and 8 ft. wide My truck is 19 feet long and 8ft wide and it was a little tight in spots ..... like only inches from the rock walls and opposing traffic. We traversed the 50 mile road in both directions hiked and climbed glaciers......what a great day. We slept well that night. The next day we headed further south and are in Glacier Pines campground near Kalispell, Montana. We plan on staying here for two nights (laundry needs doing) and planning our next route now that we have no direction or time lines to follow. pics of the last few days can be found at Http://picasaweb.google.com/collindo99/calgary2
Doug.

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