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