Alberta, Canada June 15th - June 25th
In Hill Springs we camped at the Great Canadian Barn Dance and Family Campground.
We had to stop on the road to the Campground for a cattle drive.
We had a tour to the Remington Carriage Museum, they have a very large collection of old carriages, work wagons, stage coaches, and covered wagons.
They have a workshop with old and new tools they use to restore carriages.
We also visited the "Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump" in the Blackfeet Indian area.
The story behind the name was that young indian boy wanted to see the fallen buffalo at the bottom of the jump. So he was below the cliff and after the jump the adult Indian women came in to field dress the buffalo. They discovered the little boy with a smashed head and dead. There was no evidence that this happened at this location but they thought it was a good name for the site.
In Calgary we stayed a Riversedge Campground
We toured Heritage Park which included a Gasoline Alley. Which have a collection of old cars, tool shop, vintage travel trailer, and gas pumps.
In Banff we stayed at Thunder Mountain Campground
We toured Lake Louise this included a ride up a ski chair lift with a great view of the lake.
We also had a free day to Geocache in downtown, one cache was near a farmers market another cache was inside a hotel atrium.
After Banff we stayed one night dry camping at the Columbia Ice Fields.
We toured one of the glaciers and sampled the water. The tour was in a special bus designed for driving across the ice fields, and gravel roads. One gravel road went up and down a 32% grade that is 32 feet of fall in 100 feet.
We also visited the sky walk over a canyon with mountain goats on the side of the canyon walls under the sky walk.
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