I crossed back into the United States at the small small town of Roosville.....no problems....it really pays to cross at these remote border crossings....all he wanted to know is if I owned the vehicle? how long I had been in Canada? and if I was carrying anything for anyone?
I am back in the U.S!! Now I can use my cell phone without the .69 cents per minute roaming charge AND can fill the tank as I was waiting to get to cheaper gas...$2.79! HA! The little things that make a difference....I will say that Canada is beautiful but very expensive...everything....especially FOOD! I could not afford to live in Canada!!
It was a long windy DUSTY road to the top....32 km.....I was a little disappointed when I discovered it was a backcountry campground.....which means you have to BACKPACK in about 6 miles to a glacier lake......and it's too late to even do the hike...as there are bear warnings of a sighting of a mom and 3 cubs yesterday on the trail....I decide to turn around and go back down the mountain and camp next to Whiteswan Lake where I camped last night.
Right down the road from the Hot Springs there is a water well with a hand pump...I am always on the lookout for good sources of drinking water!......and there was nice camping another 4 km up the road where I camped next to a man from Calgary who builds elevators and told me that the Province of Alberta is very flush with all the oil and gas exploration and that there is no sign of a recession there! Their government even sent out a survey to see how the people wanted to spend all the money....now isn't that a novel idea U.S.A??!! They ended up doing all the options...a tax rebate, building up the infrastructure, etc, etc....however, all that is possible because of our U.S. dollars being pumped into Canada for oil and gas development!!!....I love meeting all these interesting people along the way! I made another blackberry cobbler in the Dutch oven, but again I burned the bottom...I have more to learn about that cooking.
Rock climbing is doable here.
Evidence of the forces of nature that are posted on signs along the road. (all the signs are in French and English) I reckon I don't have anything to worry about now with no snow in the 3 day forecast!
I was so surprised to see the roadsides covered with these little white flowers that look like dandelions but aren't.....I didn't see them on the way driving north, but on the return trip with the sun shining through them they are obvious...what a difference a perspective makes!! Nothing like revelation to lend grace to an already perfect day! 
The same roadside facing the other way!
The mosses and lichens and wildflowers were so colorful and bright!
Every twist of the trail offered a new very different view!
I have to say that all the driving, all the gas, all the money was worth this day alone to be here seeing and feeling this special place!! I had a wonderful experience of feelings...your hand was in mine!! I truly felt like I was on TOP OF THE WORLD!!! I am high on the sunshine and the thin air!!
Along the way there are little signs that indicate where the toe was in previous years. We are definently in a warming trend. But then trends are only a small view of the big picture....These mountains are millions of years old and so I imagine there has been a lot of advancing and retreating of glaciers......however this may be the last glimpse I will get of one in my lifetime???
The emerald and turquoise color comes from rock particles (glacial silt) suspended in the water...that is a very short explanation of what it really is...my remote sensing friends can comment!!
The rivers are almost white with the glacial melt.
Num-Ti-Jah Lodge on Bow Lake.
