Cowboy Trail

I haven’t included any pictures of Fort MacLeod, and that’s sad because this is a very interesting town. Obviously it was the first in the area, as the RCMP created a post here first, and traders came and the town started. It’s got a lot of old buildings and the Main Street is a consistent group of period buildings.

Including one that was once a courthouse - at first when it was still part of the Northwest Territories, and then for Alberta. In fact, it’s the only such courthouse surviving.

On our last day in Alberta, we went to the Lundbreck Falls. I found them described as a miniature Niagara!

There’s a barn near the falls that had interesting decorations.

Then we took the Cowboy Trail to Calgary. It’s on the edge of the Rockies, going through the foothills, and it’s very pretty - far better than the multi lane highway we would have used otherwise.

After stopping at Longview for lunch, we saw the Okotoks Eratic. There were a long trail of rocks carried on top of the glaciers from the Rockies to this part of Alberta, and this is the biggest.

There are some petroglyphs on it, but they’re hard to see.

We’re going to Whitehorse tomorrow, staying a day, and then camping for a week where we won’t have any wifi (I’m not sure whether we’ll have any in Whitehorse either). After that, we should have wifi for one night before we won’t have it again for another week. Then we’ll have another night of wifi in Vancouver before we board the train for five days without wifi while we travel across Canada. So from here on the posts will be extremely patchy!