Saturday, July 10, 2010
July 7-8 Waterton M-56.86,T-6:10:01,AVG-9.21,El-3593 Rising Sun Campground
Chief Mt. I've been looking at Chief Mt. for about 4 days now. It's following me. It always seems to be the pinnacle of my routes. North,south,east or west. Today I got to see the North side as I was heading towards Glacier from Waterton.
Early risers taking advantage of the morning glow on St.Mary Lake.
A hike I took on the top of Logan's pass. Going To The Sun Road. 
July 6 Cardston-Waterton M-36.96,T-4:11:58,AVG-8.8,El-821
Cardston's claim to fame is actress Fay Wray of the original classic, King Kong. She was born just outside of Cardston.
A friendly little bear as I was entering Waterton Provincial Park. He or she ( I didn't get close enough to check) was pretty mellow as tourists got out of there cars to check him out. I wasn't to concerned knowing there only carnivores 10% of the time.
A view of the Lake looking south in to the U.S. from Waterton Park.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
July5 Cutbank-Cardston Alberta M-75.12,T-8:44:39,AVG-8.59,El-2213
It was quite a change yesterday going from the plains of Montana to the prairies of Alberta running up against the Rockies. All types of weather as you can see by the photo. Rain,hail,sunny,cool, and to finish the day off rainy and cool 10 miles out of Cardston. I felt good about being a west bounder riding through the prairies alone as usual and seeing 3 east bounders going by in the back of a pickup to escape the rain. Even back in Chester a farmer I met couldn't figure out why I was riding west. I just said "Crazy" and his friend explained seeing I didn't have a explanation. 
This was the strangest experience so far. As I was riding I spotted this Hawk on the pole. Theres a few of them. So I snapped a quick pic. Nothing spectacular. As I road off I could see it was following me and pestering me like crows bother eagles. I let it go till it dived bomb and hit my helmet. Thats it! I got off the bike and started walking as it wasn't safe to ride as I was preoccupied with my rear view mirror watching for it's next tactic. It kept at it.Ducking it's predictable dives as I seen it approach. Finally I needed something for retaliation and used my SeaLine map case on a shock cord to swing at it as it buzzed by. Which worked alright. The hawk out maneuvering the Alberta map in the last seconds to avoid a crash. Then another hawk showed up. Now whats going to happen? Nothing as three old starlings came to the rescue and started harrasing it. Finally it gave up and rested on a pole again down a cross road. Strange experience. I'm just use to dogs.
Dinner time on the prairies.
Sunday, July 4, 2010
July4 Chester-Cutbank
I left Chester at the crack of dawn this morning while everyone else was still saw n logs after the fireworks and festivities last night. A clean get away.This was my best riding morning on 2. No traffic and I had the whole Hiway to myself for a couple of hours. The winds woke up around 8:30 or 9:00 and I was hoping they would take the fourth off. But no. They passed by me almost all the way to Cutbank till the rains started. I could tell the rain was from Seattle by the 50 degree temp. The winds let up once the rain started and if I had a choice rain or wind I would pick the rain.
One of the many cars parked at the Chester Road House Barn & Grill. Original owner.
I sense the trip is starting to wind down as I leave the plains and prairies of North Dakota and Montana and start climbing into the Rockies tomorrow.Also July 4 is the two month mark of my May 4 start with 3429 miles behind me.
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