Day 28 - Monday, July 27/2009
Starting Location: Drumheller, AB
Ending Location: Swift Current, AB
Distance Travelled: 538 miles or 872 km
Distance Travelled to date: 8541 miles or 14165 km
Swift Current Motel, AB $80 not the best
Gas:
Drumheller, AB $0.949/li 12.123 litres $11.50 total
Medicine Hat, AB $0.934/li 12.837 litres $11.99 total
Havre, Montana $2.539/gal 3.263 gal $8.28 US total
Swift Current, AB $0.99/li 20.37 litres $20.35 total
Left Drumheller with intentions of taking the Red Coat Trail towards Winnipeg. This was the route taken by the Mounties as they moved west.
Went thru Red Deer and took Hwy 1 to Irvine and then to Hwy 41 south towards the CDN/US border.
Hwy 41 was in excellent condition and had some very long straight sections thru the plains where the Indians roamed and where a lot of treaties were signed.
The Cyprus Hills Grasslands went on forever and seemed much larger than the huge canola fields or ranches of other parts of the west. The view was amazing, as it seemed not to end.
Once we got near the US border, we were to turn onto Hwy 13, but there was 60km of very loose, gravel roads ahead. I decided to take the route thru Montana as the roads were very good, flat and could travel at 70mph. You could see a mountain range just past the grassland plains in Montana.
Back in Saskatchewan we found the roads (Hwy 18) were not in very good shape (paved but very rough) and we were not making very good time, so we decided to go back to Hwy 1 and stop in Swift Current. The Red Coat Trail is 1300km long, but we just didn't have the time to follow it. Too bad they did not maintain the roads a bit better so more could follow the historic route.
When we left Drumheller, the weather was very hot and clear, A great time for riding. About 8:00pm, temperature started to drop to the low 50's.
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