Crowsnest Pass II

Up early in Blairmore, AB and ride into Frank. Frank has had a bad rap in the guidebooks - I take to the place. Breakfast at the A&W in the gas station and then tour the old site of Frank, where Constable Willmett was murdered - now a wrecking yard and industrial estate. To the Frank Slide museum, where staff are friendly and helpful. Great view of this natural disaster where Turtle Mountain collapsed on the site of Frank in 1903. I find a plaque at the museum dedicated to fallen men of the mounted police - Constable Willmett is the first on a list of four - photographed for the archives. A search of the local cemeteries for the grave of Reuben Steeves, proprietor of the Imperial Hotel, back in the day proves fruitless. We ride on to Pincher Creek - more modern windmills than you can count - for a pitstop before heading into Fort Macleod tonight.