Flowers and mountains in prairie fields at Waterton
It is another beautiful, sunny and calm day. We decided to try biking this morning, so I cleaned up the chains on our bikes, which were pretty dusty from the trip here. I discovered that my front tire was flat, so pumped it up. It seemed to be holding air, and the valve doesn’t seem to be leaking; however, to be safe we stopped at the bicycle shop here and bought a new tube.
We stopped at the outdoor store and got some Freesole to fix Enid’s shoe as well as her bike helmet (a pad has come unglued). After that we peddled north up the hill to the Prince of Wales Hotel and took a look around the impressive lobby. From there we continued up the highway until the bike path starts at Linnet Lake. We stopped along the bike path several times to take pictures until we came to the road that branches off to the stable and a picnic site.
Not far down this road was a barricade. We kept on going down the gravel road until we came to a major washout where the culvert was half uncovered. After walking our bikes across this we continued on down the road to where it meets the Waterton River. It appears that at times they ford the river here, but the river is very high right now so that would be impossible.
Along the way there and back we stopped several times to take pictures of the spectacular scenery. There are large prairie fields filled with grasses and wild flowers with a backdrop of mountains towering over them in the background. It was a pleasant way to spend a warm sunny morning.