On Thursday, we found out why we can't find the International Delight cold coffee. The company replied to our email telling us they been discontinued because there isn't enough market for them in Canada.
On Friday, after talking to Mom and Dad, we did a 'small' loop from Rocky to Nordegg to Ram Falls, then to SR 752 and back to Rocky, checking out a number of recreation areas and random camping areas for future visits to the area. One of the first stops was Saunders Creek Rec Area, which is at the site of the Saunders Creek Mine Ghost Town. We didn't see much evidence except for the plaques erected by the Saunders Society. The old town site has camping by donation to the Society, and there is random camping nearby as well. A bit of steep drive down toward the North Sask, but nothing the truck couldn't handle with the trailer. Most of the rec areas had at most one or two sites that would provide us with satellite and solar access. Lots of trees in the area. We stopped and had lunch above Dry Haven Creek, which was our turn-around point past Nordegg.
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There looked like some good random camping sites at the North Ram junction. Between there and Ram Falls we encountered a herd of mountain sheep on the road. A few rams with nice horns, females, and young ones.
We went into Ram Falls. There was only one other vehicle there, a young couple from Rimbey.
On our way south of Ram Falls, we stopped to take a picture of a deer. While we were doing that, a parks warden stopped to see if we had an issue. She also made sure that we knew there was a total fire ban in effect, and then turned in ahead of us a bit down the road to make sure some random campers knew about the ban too. We saw a lot of good random camping sites, some with trailers in them, in the Elk Creek valley close to SR 752.
On Sunday, the weather was cool and drizzly until late afternoon, so we didn't do much.
On Monday, we went to the Rocky Mountain House National Historic Site (for the first time as far as we can remember). It was opening day for the season (finally, we were in the right place at the right time). Lots of good information on the history of the site, with particular emphasis on the the local tribes that traded at the HBC and NWC posts, and on David Thompson who did a lot of work based from them and worked for both companies, at different times. We walked the two interpretive loops in the site, a total of 4.0 km. Apparently there are buffalo in a paddock here, but there were none today.
Once back in the trailer we watched a deer munching on the leaves on the small trees around the campground. It was interesting to note that she ate a lot leaves off each tree, but never removed them all, even from the short ones where they were all within her reach.
Tuesday morning, we went for the 10k walk around Crimson Lake. Met a fellow with a chocolate lab fetching a frisbee. They walk in the area every day. At the north end of the lake, we saw a group of about 10 canoes, with people learning techniques.
We walked past the cottages on the west side of the lake. Quite a mix of sizes and quality.
On Wednesday, we went to Bow RiversEdge in Cochrane. This time we selected a back-in site with a nice view of the off-leash dog area between the campground and the river.
Thursday morning it snowed a bit, by 11 it was melted, but still a cool day. We tried going for a walk in the afternoon, but the combination of damp and wind made it too uncomfortable to go very far.
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