Waterton

On Saturday I went to Waterton Lakes National Park which is 81 miles south from Lethbridge. The park borders with Glacier National Park in Montana and together form the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park and was the first Peace Park - there are now many more across borders around the world. As you can see from the photos, the park is really beautiful. The mountains are part of the Rockies and still have snow on top of some while the lakes are crystal clear and freezing cold (after walking I dipped my toes in but couldn't stand it for too long).
We went on a hike organised jointly with a Canadian and an American guide (I'm pictured with them below). The hike goes all the way along Upper Waterton Lake, starting just by the Waterton townsite, and finishing in Goat Haunt, Montana. It was an all day hike (hence the need to be paddling in the lake at the end of it - tired feet) and it was 14km long. Fortunately since it was along the lakeshore it was flat.
I was especially glad to be going on a guided hike after the welcome talk included the fact that both guides carried bear spray - pepper spray for bears! Apparently they can target a bear from 20 feet away. However, they also added that if a bear was in the vicinity just to stay close to them while they decided what we should do (they didn't say what this could be other than get off the trail, I was hoping this wasn't code for "decide who to feed to the bear first"). However, I didn't see any bears in the end.