Hills of Cypress and Sand
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51 viewsMedicine Hat, home of the world's tallest teepee (though I think this is cheating).
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56 viewsFrederic goes gopher hunting in the middle of Medicine Hat.
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54 viewsThe road down to Alberta's side of Cypress Hills.
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49 viewsJust a small church near the border.
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60 viewsCattle crossing.
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57 viewsCypress Hills Interprovincial park crosses from Alberta into Saskatchewan. Just around the corner is the SK border.
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56 viewsA much more epic view in person.
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62 viewsLooking out into Saskatchewan
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59 viewsReesor Lake is a spring-fed beauty in Cypress Hills.
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58 viewsFrederic and my car over Reesor Lake.
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58 viewsModest. Unassuming. Saskatchewan: Like a fine wine.
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59 viewsGravel roads
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55 viewsHistoric Fort Walsh, once the unofficial home of the Northwest Mounted Police (later to become the RCMP/GRC).
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57 viewsAn old soldiers' cemetery sits overlooking the fort.
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56 viewsThe same cemetery from a different perspective.
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57 viewsDriving to the lake we wound up instead at the conglomerate cliffs.
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53 viewsDriving to the lake we wound up instead at the conglomerate cliffs.
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55 viewsFirst-person perspective of the lake below.
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55 viewsWe thought for a few minutes that this might be the south end of the great sandhills. We were wrong.
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55 viewsCypress Hills vineyard: the only winery on the prairies.
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