So now we have crossed over into Canada from Montana and begin our trek to the Alaskan border. We stopped in Lethbridge, Alberta to pick up a few things at Wal-Mart, then go for a burger at Five Guys. The drive was pretty windy, cool, rainy, not too pretty. We drove on to Fort Macleod to the Buffalo Plains RV Park. This was just a few miles from the “Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump”, which we visited after getting the RVs set up. This was our second buffalo jump. It had a very nice visitor’s center and we got a discount on the admission thanks to maps we bought at the visitor’s center when we entered Alberta.
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After we had toured the center and were about to leave, we got ushered into a room by one of the workers and he showed us a group of tools and weapons similar to those created over 6,000 years ago by the First People who used the buffalo jump. All were created using skin and sinew from buffalo combined with wood and rock. He explained the use of many of them.
This morning we left the campground and headed for Banff National Park. The weather was pretty variable, driving in and out of rain. As we approached the park, some sunlight came through the clouds. We arrived at our campsites with some pretty nice looking surroundings. We took a scenic drive around some of the nearby lakes. We hope that the clouds clear out and give us a chance to get some better pictures, but these are pretty good by themselves.
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