Day 15: Say it five times fast!
The beautiful vastness of the plains July 20: Two weeks ago today we left. It feels a lot longer! Man, I love the drive alongside the mountains! Even though they weren’t the tallest or craggiest, it’s just so beautiful. All the same, to change up the trip back along the same route through the Crowsnest Pass, we stopped at the Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Interpretive Centre west of Lethbridge. Buffalo jumps, in case the term is unfamiliar to you, is where the Blackfoot herded buffalo over a cliff in order to have a large kill in a relatively short time. The name of this one does not refer to buffalo heads being smashed in but rather to a rather thoughtless brave deciding it would be neat to watch them come over from the bottom (perhaps the first winner of a Darwin Award). The concept of a buffalo jump seems kind of cruel in one way but when you consider the amount of use the natives made of all parts of the bison and that it was for sur...