West Coast Trip Part 2 of 6

After driving across the Prairies for 3 days, we went to Waterton National park in Alberta. For those of you who don't know, Waterton borders with Glacier National Park in Montana. Together they are called the Peace Park. This National park is located at the tail end of the Canadian Rockies. Driving from Lethbridge towards the park is quite scenic as naturally you are driving towards the Rockies with nothing but gold prairie fields to the right and left of the car.





As we arrived at the gate, we chatted with the park warden about the best place to camp. He told us naturally the interior of the park is very scenic and that's what we were after. Upon my friend expressing his dear fear of encountering a bear, the warden told us not to worry.

10 minutes later we had encountered our 5th bear. We saw 10 bears in total-8 black bears and 2 Grizzly bears in Waterton park. On our trip we saw a total of 15 bears. Quite an amazing number.




Of course being so close to Montana (5 hours) I met up with a law school buddy of mine. I'll save the details of how late he arrived, but I did manage to convince him to have two drinks.











We got up at a relatively good hour and did a day hike to Bertha Lake. Surprisingly, lawyers seem to have done many of the trails at Waterton. Both on northern and southern sides of the park. This hike was absolutely beautiful with a hike through the ever changing forest, up to the lake. Not an extremely long hike, but beautiful all the same. The first photo is taken from the trail as well.