Hills of Cypress and Sand
|
|
|

41 viewsMedicine Hat, home of the world's tallest teepee (though I think this is cheating).
|
|

46 viewsFrederic goes gopher hunting in the middle of Medicine Hat.
|
|

43 viewsThe road down to Alberta's side of Cypress Hills.
|
|

40 viewsJust a small church near the border.
|
|

48 viewsCattle crossing.
|
|

48 viewsCypress Hills Interprovincial park crosses from Alberta into Saskatchewan. Just around the corner is the SK border.
|
|

46 viewsA much more epic view in person.
|
|

49 viewsLooking out into Saskatchewan
|
|

49 viewsReesor Lake is a spring-fed beauty in Cypress Hills.
|
|

47 viewsFrederic and my car over Reesor Lake.
|
|

47 viewsModest. Unassuming. Saskatchewan: Like a fine wine.
|
|

49 viewsGravel roads
|
|

45 viewsHistoric Fort Walsh, once the unofficial home of the Northwest Mounted Police (later to become the RCMP/GRC).
|
|

46 viewsAn old soldiers' cemetery sits overlooking the fort.
|
|

47 viewsThe same cemetery from a different perspective.
|
|

46 viewsDriving to the lake we wound up instead at the conglomerate cliffs.
|
|

43 viewsDriving to the lake we wound up instead at the conglomerate cliffs.
|
|

45 viewsFirst-person perspective of the lake below.
|
|

44 viewsWe thought for a few minutes that this might be the south end of the great sandhills. We were wrong.
|
|

46 viewsCypress Hills vineyard: the only winery on the prairies.
|
|
|