We are in Dubois, WY at my cousin’s house on the Wind River. Janice has a warm, cozy home with the Wind River in her back yard and the beautiful red cliffs behind that. I love it here and hope we can come back every year (in the summer) if she will have us.
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We spent our last two days in Canada driving through the Jasper National Park. We drove in to Jasper, very touristy area, and got information on some of the more interesting sites to visit. The next morning we drove up to the Miette Park Hot Springs. There is a wonderful spa there that has just been refurbished with two large hot pools and two smaller cold pools. We stayed there for a couple of hours enjoying the waters. Then we drove down the Ice field Highway to the Columbia Ice Fields. What a beautiful sight!
We were able to take a bus up to the Athabasca Glacier and then a specialize vehicle onto the glacier and then spent about 10 minutes walking around. It was awesome!
From Jasper National Park we drove to Lake Louise. We didn’t stay there long. There were a lot of tourists there plus no inviting little picnic tables or anything to entice you to stay a while. I’m glad we stopped though. It’s someplace I’ve always wanted to see. Then on to Banff. Gary didn’t want to stop so we just drove around the city. It kind of reminded me of Vail. We did make a couple of stops that day. One of the Information Centers we stopped at had brochures on two places that looked to be interesting stops for our last day in Canada.
Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump near Fort MacLeod and Fort Whoop-Up in Lethbridge. Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump is on the National Historic Site and I was surprised at how large the facility was that houses the information on the site. It is 7 floors up to the area where you walk out on the actual jump site. Inside the building is displays of the history about the site that was used for about 6,000 years until the buffalo were almost extinct. The whole thing is very well done and worth the visit.
Fort Whoop-Up has a scandalous history as its name indicates. A couple of fur traders from Montana started it and things got so bad there that the Northwest Mounted Police was formed in order to not only bring law to the Fort but also to have a Canadian presence there as a US flay was flying over the Fort. Anyway it was all very interesting.
I guess Gary wanted to be back to the lower 48 real bad because we bi-passed Calgary and headed for the border. So here we are in Dubois today. We will leave Monday to head for Denver where Kay will fly home for Alison’s surgery. My aunt and uncle live near by and will go with me to The Ranger Lakes. The road to Ranger Lakes is open 3 or 4 months and is above 9000 feet. After Ranger Lakes I will head for Wichita, Kansas for the Wichita Open, Kelly will be playing in. Kay will rejoin Spud and me at that point.
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