Yesterday we drove from Lake Louise to near the Canadian Border. However, I misunderstood a short cut my wife found for us and headed on Highway 1 towards Golden, Alberta. Soon, she realized I had gone the wrong direction and we found out that I hadn't fully studied this new "short cut" she had found to the border through Kootenay National Park and Forests. I think it's called 93 which connects to 95 when heading towards the U.S. border of Canada. It is an incredibly beautiful route and it rained on us some but if you look at the weather for places like Lake Louise or Banff rain is expected some every day for the next 7 days or so now (some rain) but not rain all day.
The Kootenay River seemed swollen a lot from all the rain they are getting which was kind of ominous for us after what we experienced in Yellowstone on the Yellowstone River with people and homes and roads being flooded out completely with 3 times the previous record or rain or a once in 500 year event.
Driving out the north entrance of Yellowstone and then watching green cottonwood trees go down the river in addition to all the dead ones can leave one a little traumatized after seeing about 50 to 100 homes flooded out while driving north through Livingston, Montana last week.
One really fun thing is that a Mountain Goat (the first I have ever seen in person or my wife was on the road ready to run up the face of a cliff when we drove by at one point. My wife was frustrated she couldn't get the camera to work on her smartphone fast enough to get a shot of it. But, at the same time this was the first horned mountain goat either of us had seen before. The mountain sheep with the horns that curve down and around we had seen before but mountain Goats don't live in California just up north.
we saw one of these things:
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