Day 30 – Roaming Roadblocks

We left Golden, BC with the intentions of getting as close to Glacier National Park as we could. We were in the mountains and I have to tell you that it was pretty chilly the first thing in the morning. We continued on Hwy 1 and we hadn’t been on the road long when Dick called over the CB that he saw a bear. So we did a quick U-Turn (no penalty for this one) and returned to catch some pictures of Bear #9 (we found that out later) munching on berries on the side of the road. What a special treat to see.

The mountains that surrounded us were just amazing. We were in awe of them as they are so different than the mountains back east. We left Banff and took Hwy 40 south toward the US border. This road paralleled the mountains. We weren’t on this road long before we started to see sheep (or goats, we weren’t sure.) The further we went the more we saw and eventually they started blocking the road. These guys were a little skittish and you had to be careful and watch their actions. This scenario played out a number of times. We stopped again at a rocky area and there were two large Big Horn Sheep keeping an eye on us. We learned that the ones we had been seeing were females and their young. What a sight.

We stopped in the little town of Longview for, what else, ice cream. While we were there we met an elderly gentleman named Loren Fuller, who had restored a number of Fords, including the 1928 Tudor he had while he was in high school. He had pictures of the other cars he had which had been modified with V8s and modern drive train. As Nan said, with the long distances between towns up here and the straight roads, it was probably a necessity. Leaving Longview, we headed straight to Pincher Creek for our overnight.