CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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On the way it passes Waterton Glacier International Peace Park, Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump and back through Waterton Glacier International Peace Park. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from United States into Canada - carry ID and check the toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
The ride follows Waterton Glacier International Peace Park → Waterton Glacier Internati for 38 km.
The southern half of the Peace Park is Glacier National Park in Montana, a rugged expanse of peaks, lakes and valleys carved by ice, with the Continental Divide running through its core. The park was established in 1910 and covers more than a million acres, and in its heyday it held about a hundred and fifty glaciers. Climate change has reduced that to a few dozen, and the shrinking of the ice is one of the park's central stories.
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Waterton Glacier International Peace Park is where the day begins. Next is Waterton Glacier International Peace Park.
Waterton Lakes National Park is where the Canadian prairies slam into the Rocky Mountains with hardly a foothill to cushion the blow. Flat grassland stretches all the way to the base of the peaks, which rise abruptly above the lake, and the effect is dramatic. The park occupies the southwest corner of Alberta, and together with Glacier National Park across the border in Montana it forms the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, created in 1932 as the world's first such park, and a symbol of friendship between the two countries.
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Waterton Glacier International Peace Park comes up 74 km in. 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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148 km in you reach Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump. Next is back through Waterton Glacier International Peace Park.
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Read the complete Waterton Glacier International Peace Park write-up.
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back through Waterton Glacier International Peace Park, late in the day.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Waterton Glacier International Peace Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Waterton Glacier International Peace Park. That is the ride.
Waterton Glacier International Peace Park → Waterton Glacier International Peace Park is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Waterton Glacier International Peace Park → Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is 110 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump → back through Waterton Glacier International Peace Park is 110 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Waterton Glacier International Peace Park → Waterton Glacier International Peace Park is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.