This morning's adventure brought us to Mission Canyon in the Little Rockies - about an hour away. As we left, an unlucky little prairie dog ran in front of my car and didn't make it. Sorry little buddy! You should look both ways before crossing the road! I can't believe the first prairie dog of the trip and I kill it... 1/2 a km later, we saw a dead badger on the road - stopped and took some photos for Sophie. What a beautiful animal! 
Anyways, enough of roadkills and on with the adventure. Mission Canyon... as you arrive, it's a small gravel road between 2 huge rock walls. Beautiful! We made our way to the trail head where we hiked 2km. Pretty much 1 up and 1 down. The trail brings you to a natural bridge and a "hole in the wall". This tiny single track trail on the edge of the mountain reminded me of the Alps. Not as glorious, but that feeling of fear of falling. Not a pleasant feeling. There are actually 2 natural bridges in the canyon. One we hiked up to see, the other was right on the side of the road.
After our hike, in 34ºC weather, we made our way back to the hotel to just relax a little. Probably will go for a swim later on.
Tomorrow we finally get to see Sophie! Looking forward to seeing where they worked for the past few months!
Birds: pelicans, western meadowlark, crow, flicker
Roadkill: badger, prairie dog (my own roadkill), other little creatures, something that looked like a rabbit -could see a white pompom amidst the mess
Animals: Cows, horses, pronghorn
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