Coming out of the foothills, back onto the prairies west of Calgary. Once again, it was low ceiling for our drive through the mountains and we didn't see much of them.
East of Calgaray, heading towards Drumheller:
We passed this building parked at the side of the road:
And then we got into more ... snow!
For much of my adult life I have wanted to go hike in the badlands. Wouldn't you know it, we happened to visit at a time when the trail we wanted to do was closed, as it was being used as a movie set. They weren't even filming that day (no doubt the snow was throwing a wrench into their plans, as well as ours), but we still couldn't hike, but the very nice security guard at the site directed us to this spot where we could see Horseshoe Canyon. The snow made the badlands extra bad:
Ed's not actually smiling in this one, he is gritting his teeth ... it was cold!
Driving into the valley with the badlands and Drumheller:
We saw dinosaurs everywhere:
Since the weather was so lousy, we spent longer at the museum there. Here is just one of the dinos that greeted us:
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