WEATHER: Mostly sunny. High around 60
We biked to a nearby waterfall. Beautiful. In the winter, this park stays open. One of the winter sports is climbing frozen waterfalls. Not for me!
Then we took a 3-hour hike on a trail overlooking Waterton Lake. We met back country hikers continuing on to the Montana border, about 10 miles. The wildflowers are at their peak. There is a wildflower festival here next week. There were signs of bear and avalanche warnings at the trailhead. We saw lots of globs of bear poop along the trail (extremely large and fresh), but no bears. We walked by an avalanche path. It was so strong that it had come all the way down the valley, then took out trees on the other side, going up.
Waterton is supposedly the windiest place in Alberta. It has been calm, but today lived up to its reputation. There were white caps on the lake. The afternoon turned blustery, so we did laundry in a warm laundromat, occupied by a backpacker warming up.
We are really appreciating the electricity hook-up. It is amazing how something like that is so important....easy hot water, toast, heating pad to keep warm.
In the evening, we made a fire in the picnic shelter and used our pie iron to make turkey/cheese paninis.
Here is George getting started....
Toasting away.....
They turned out perfectly. I think the cast iron has become seasoned. (The first few times we used it, food stuck and burned)
DINNER: The paninis with some canned soup that I doctored up.
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