It’s 7pm and we have finished with our showers after our day in the West Block of the park. We began with a walk around of Fort Walsh finishing off with the graveyard of the fort from 130 years ago. Next on the agenda was the drive-up version of the Conglomerate Cliffs which were quite spectacular. Finally, we found our way to our starting point on the TransCanada trail.
The climb was on a narrow trail that was torn up and muddy as it is most used by horseback groups. We walked only inches from the edge of drop offs that fell a long way down as we saw the tops of trees below us. Finally, we reached a plateau, the high point in the park, where we found the hidden Conglomerate Cliffs, our main objective for hiking in this section of the park. Maureen decided to go out to the edge of the cliffs so that she could have her photo taken there. From my angle, at the edge of the plateau, her position looked quite precarious, as though she would slip of and fall off the cliff. Now how would I explain it as I would somehow have to find my way down to where she would have fallen simply in order to get the phone to call for help. Not good planning on our part with her taking most of the risks. It was a good day, well spent which included 16 kilometres of hiking, meeting another couple on the trail not far from these cliffs, and time together, doing something we both love.