{"id":9870,"date":"2017-07-01T18:53:06","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T23:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wohutravels.us\/?p=9870"},"modified":"2019-03-26T10:06:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T15:06:51","slug":"day-21-waterton-national-park-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/?p=9870","title":{"rendered":"Day 21, Waterton National Park, Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

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EVERYONE slept very well last night after crossing over Logan Pass. Today we would leave the US for two days in Canada. Great morning for biking as we paralleled Lower St Mary\u2019s Lake. Not a ripple in the water and the reflections were unbelievable. Hard to tell where the real thing ended and the reflection began!!!<\/p>\n

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One great view after another as we biked north along the lake.<\/p>\n

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Looks like there might be a meeting of the elders . . .<\/p>\n

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Along the way we passed the Two Sisters Pie Shop. The place was closed when we bike passed it last year on our mbbt Canadian Trip and it was closed this year too as I biked north.<\/p>\n

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Sticker on he \u2018Two Sisters\u2019 door just about covered it all . . . .<\/p>\n

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Good Point !!!!<\/p>\n

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Even thought the place was closed I thought I might be able to use the bathroom. Sure enough all I had to do was\u00a0 . . .follow the yellow brick road!!!!<\/p>\n

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They had a great side building too for serving pie with a big map . . .<\/p>\n

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. . .that had license plates from just about every state. Maybe they will be open the next time I pass through. Snaren and Roxanne, this is something you could do in retirement!!!<\/p>\n

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Next town was Babb, located on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. It was raining when we passed through last year and we stopped to get out of the rain. This year D and Anne stopped to get out of the sun! Hot already!!!<\/p>\n

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There is a great statue outside the local school donated by the Professional Rodeo Association. I stopped to check it out again on this trip.<\/p>\n

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Yippee yae yay . . . only 25 miles to the Cowboy Trail!!!!<\/p>\n

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What a great scene . . .<\/p>\n

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As we turned onto to Chief Mountain Peace Memorial Road we came upon this sign. . . .don\u2019t think it will be an issue today!!!<\/p>\n

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Now the Big Chief may have known something about diplomacy and making peace but he didn’t know much about road grades . . . we climbed for ours up the highway!!!<\/p>\n

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The first bump we went over after about an hour, Crusher Hill . . .<\/p>\n

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. . . which barely register on on the landscape!!!!<\/p>\n

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These guys knew how to keep cool . . .<\/p>\n

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Lots of folks use road signs to sight in their rifles. Montana DOT is VERY accommodating by just routinely putting out blank signs to shoot at. Everyone is happy!!!<\/p>\n

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We passed back into Glacier Park, which abuts Waterton National Peace Park, before crossing the border . . .<\/p>\n

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Only 3.5 miles to go!<\/p>\n

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. . . and\u00a0 BIG downhill right into Canada, YES!!!!<\/p>\n

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. . . I was the first one to pass though customs into Canada. Today is the 150th Celebration of Canada day\u00a0 . . .<\/p>\n

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. . .and they were passing out free flag pins!!!<\/p>\n

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Connie\u2019s second time north across the border. You go girl!!!<\/p>\n

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Canadian’s\u00a0 are happy to have Americans come and visit . . . but be sure to leave your elm firewood at home. They are trying to keep out all kinds of terrestrial and aquatic invasives from our lower 48!!!<\/p>\n

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Soon we we on a HUGE downhill parrelling Waterton Village. About 40 miles an hour on the decent. All that climbing elevation evaporated in abut 10 minutes!!!!<\/p>\n

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Along a final seven mile flat section I could use some water and\u00a0 noticed one of the little pump shelters the Canadian’s have along the park way. I remember I filled up last year too . . .<\/p>\n

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. .\u00a0 oh, oh . . .something has changed!!!!!<\/p>\n

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As I turned off the highway towards our campground I notice this flashing sign flashing proclaiming \u2018Celebrate Canada Day 150\u2019 . . .<\/p>\n

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. . . I\u2019ve heard about high winds in Alberta and it must be true. This block of cement is not going to let that sign blow away!!!<\/p>\n

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Next to our camp was sign for this Centre and Trail sponsored by the Nature Conservancy. Going to have to check that out!!!!<\/p>\n

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Yippee . . .\u00a0 finally on the trail!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EVERYONE slept very well last night after crossing over Logan Pass. Today we would leave the US for two days in Canada. Great morning for biking as we paralleled Lower St Mary\u2019s Lake. Not a ripple in the water and the reflections were unbelievable. Hard to tell where the real thing ended and the reflection … Continue reading Day 21, Waterton National Park, Canada<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-northern-tier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10262,"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9870\/revisions\/10262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}