We are back in Canada! For a while anyway…
It was still sprinkling rain when we woke up this morning. It has been raining day and night for three days straight! Regardless, we got up and ate breakfast. Liam tried out his birthday gift - a travel blender. We then packed up and headed over to pick up our rental e-bikes for our trip on the Going to the Sun Road, rescheduled from Sunday. Unfortunately, the tour company had forgotten to reschedule us a bike carrier along with the bikes, so we had no way to transport the bikes to the road. Sigh. After some back and forth, no solution could be found so they opted to refund our rental and we headed off to find a different adventure to fill our morning. In all honesty, it was still drizzling and cloudy so I’m not sure the views would have been spectacular and we would have likely gotten wet and cold. Perhaps this particular adventure just wasn’t meant to be at this time. Maybe a different e-bike adventure will present itself later in the trip.
We ended up driving around the park, back to East Glacier, and then on to St. Mary’s. After dropping the trailer off at the visitors centre, we drove along the open segment of the Going to the Sun Road from the East side. Luckily, on our second pass we were able to score one of the (only) ten parking spots to hike to St. Mary’s falls. The hike was mostly flat and our luck continued with a break in the rain while we were on the trail - Woot! Woot! We continued past the first falls on to Virginia Falls which was very misty. Both falls were huge with tons of water pounding down thanks to all this rain we’ve been having. It was quite something to behold.
The remainder of the day was spent mostly driving. We crossed the border just North of Glacier to enter Alberta. We passed through Fort MacLeod, got gas in Vulcan, and eventually arrived at the Hoodoo Campground near Drumheller.
It is still raining here even though we are out of the mountains and there are giant puddles all over; however, I suppose rain is preferable to snow.
