Blogs from Drumheller, Alberta, Canada, North America - page 2

Drumheller is a town (formerly a city) within the Red Deer River valley in the badlands of east-central Alberta, Canada. The Drumheller portion of the Red Deer River valley is often referred to as Dinosaur Valley. The Royal Tyrrell Museum, located in Drumheller, is a leading centre of palaeontological research noted for its collection of more than 130,000 fossils. The museum is situated in the middle of the fossil-bearing strata of the Late Cretaceous Horseshoe Canyon Formation and holds numerous specimens from Dinosaur Provincial Park and the Devil's Coulee Dinosaur Egg Historic Nest Site. The badlands also have hoodoos, which are tall, thin spire of rock that protrudes from the bottom of an arid drainage basin or badland. Hoodoos consist of soft sedimentary rock topped by harder, less easily-eroded stone that protects each column from the ... read more

Tuesday June 28, 2011 Calgary In My Dust Bike was packed and left the hostel at 10:30. It took a little over 2 hour’s just get beyond the city limits and Calgary airport. Calgary has some real nice biking trails along the Bow River, but beyond those biking trails it is a lot of work for a biker to get out of Calgary. I had to make a detour to get some groceries and lunch and stumbled upon the area of Calgary that I had wandered/explored when I was here back in early April waiting for CGG VERITAS to fly me back to P.E.I. Once outside city limits I jumped on Hwy #2. I was told cyclist were aloud on the #2 outside city limits. That being said #2 was still a 3-4 lane Hwy with ... read more

When: 5th - 6th June Where: Drumheller, AB Highlights: Canadian badlands, Hoodoos, Camping, Old towns Mileage: 300 km Weather: 24C - 7C This is the place I wanted to visit when I got to know about the area, even before the Rockies. Desert landscapes always take the cake(to me). I was pretty excited to be here. We have never been East, at all. With the Pacific in the W, we could always never go on all directions when we were in CA. The very fact that I can go in all 4 directions(& actually do it) brings joy in itself. Drumheller was not the first choice. Our plans changed in the 11th hour(it never has, & this totally excites me) as Drumheller seemed a better option to get campsite without reservations.(When was the last time we ... read more

May 29 Hotel: Fairmont Palliser Calgary Our last full day in the Rockies. We didn't really have any plans for the day but we had to be in Calgary tonight as my wife was flying back home early tomorrow. We were looking at things to do/see along the way to Calgary, or near Calgary. I had noticed the Dinosaur Park and the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller on our maps, that sounded like a neat detour.. although it was clear on the opposite side of Calgary from the mountains. We also thought about driving around Kananaskis Country a bit. We showed up at the breakfast buffet at the hotel right at 8 which is a bad idea as all the tour groups are arriving then for breakfast; better to come before 8 or after 9. We ... read more

Am Samstag, also am 18.10.2008, war also ein von CISSA organisierter Trip nach Drumheller und die Badlands angesetzt. Frueh um 8 Uhr war Treffzeit und um 8.30 Uhr gings los Richtung Flachland. Um mich noch weiter wettertechnisch zu verwirren, fing es an zu schneien (im Flachland!). Der Schnee blieb natürlich nicht liegen, es ist ja immernoch zu warm dafuer. Fuer den Trip hat sich ein CISSA-Volunteer (Tony), ehemals Mitarbeiter im Royal Tyrrell Museum bereiterklaert, unseren Reisefuehrer zu spielen. Erster Stop war der Horseshoe-Canyon, eine sehr interessante Gesteins- und Sandformation, welche sich allerdings schwer zu beschreiben laesst. Am besten zeigen das die Bilder. Dort sind wir (Remi, Claire, Flore & ich) zunaechst mal runtergeklettert und ein wenig im Canyon rumgelaufen und Fotos gemacht. Und ich dachte schon der Abstieg dort ist einigermassen steil, aber es kam ja ... read more