CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Calgary it runs 359 km to Calgary; allow about 4 h 46 of riding. It goes by way of Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump and back through Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Calgary is a city that grew on grass and cattle and then struck oil, and it has the swagger of both. It sits at the meeting of the Bow and Elbow rivers on the western edge of the prairies, at about a thousand metres above sea level, with the Rocky Mountains visible on the western horizon like a white wall when the air is clear. The Calgary Tower, finished in 1968, rises above the downtown skyline, and the glass offices around it are home to a large share of Canada's oil and gas companies.
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Calgary is where the day begins. Next is Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump.
Imagine a wall of sandstone, ten metres high, with the plain falling away beneath it. For about five thousand years the Blackfoot and their ancestors used cliffs like this one, in the foothills of the Porcupine Hills in southern Alberta, to hunt bison. Hunters spent days guiding a herd, gently and patiently, along lines of stone cairns called drive lanes, until the animals were running without knowing it, and then the lead animals went over the edge. Below, the whole community waited with knives, and the meat and hides of one successful drive could see a band through the winter. UNESCO lists the site as one of the oldest and best-preserved examples of the method anywhere in the world.
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Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump comes up 102 km in.
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204 km in you reach Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump. Next is back through Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump.
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back through Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, late in the day. Next is Calgary.
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Back at Calgary. That is the ride.
Calgary → Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is 204 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump → Calgary is 204 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.