On my last night back, I slept at the rest stop at Painted Canyon in North Dakota. It was a late moonset but the stars were beautiful as was and landscape of painted Canyon.
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Upon leaving Helena, my last stop was the Elkhorn Mountains and the ghost town that is located there. The ghost town is the remains of a old late 1800s mining town. It is also the trailhead to Elkhorn and Crow's Peak. Here is the frat house of Elkhorn:
And another cabin.
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After driving through the NWT, Alberta, and Montana for two days, I finally came to the town of Helena. Helena is on the border of where the Rocky Mountains Meet the Badlands of Eastern Montana and has great scenery. If you go there I suggest you climb Mount Helena and Mount Ascension. View from Mount Helena:
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Its a 1900km drive from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories to Helena, Montana and there some good scenery on the way. Here what it looked like right before I cross the Alberta/Montana Border.
And after I crossed it was just as great:
As get closer to Helena, it gets more mountainous.
The Ingraham Trail is 70km long and has many scenic spots. The two I want to discuss are Prelude Lake and Cameron Falls. Prelude Lake is a large lake that is still frozen at the end of may and has great overlooks from the nature trail.
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After several days on the road, I finally come to Yellowknife, the Capital of the Northwest Territories, where in June, the sun never sets. Some things you'll want to see in Yellowknife are the legislative building and the Prince of wales Northern Heritage Center.
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In the land of the midnight sun, it never gets darker than twilight. It is a land of lakes, swamps, and waterfalls.
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After saying goodbye to Alberta, we head into the Northwest Territories. The sign marking the border was one of the biggest I've ever seen for a state line.
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On the road past Alberta, I stopped at
Lesser Slave Lake Provincial Park and then stopped at Hutch Lake to camp for the night. Lesser Slave lake was nice but it would be nicer if it wasn't cloudy:
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The Canadian provinces are beautiful due to the lack of people and the pristine nature of the landscape. Just forty minutes out of Saskatoon, and you run into this:
Northern Canada is a huge expanse of Taiga Shield without farms because you reach the arctic Tundra. You really get a sense of being along out there.
