May 22: Medicine Hat to Maple Creek (~106km)
Dreading the forecast weather, and having put away a reasonably long day the day before, I slept in a little, ate a hefty breakfast, procrastinated with weather reports, and got a late start.
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May 21: Lethbridge to Medicine Hat (~179km)
I got a good timely start (around 8am) in substantial rain, but had strong northwesterly winds which pushed me along quickly enough that I really didn't care if I was getting rained on. The rain lightened up, and it then rained on and off pretty much all day, getting heavy again once I got close to Medicine Hat.
May 19: Blairmore to Lethbridge (~141km)
It was raining when I woke up, so I took my time packing up to allow the rain a chance to lighten before getting ony my way (which I eventually did at around 10:20). Through the foothills, I seemed to taking about 3/4 of the time to cover a given distance as I'd been averaging in the mountains, and by the time they were gone (and it was just still-frequently-rolling prairie, with coulees and ravines and the like), I was making close to one and a half times my mountain pace.
May 18: Fernie to Blairmore (~80km)
Figuring that I wanted to catch another shower (the daytimes were starting to get pretty warm and, still having bits of mountain to climb, sweaty) before leaving Fernie, I again took my merry time waking up and breaking camp, and got myself to the public pool at around 11:00am. It was due to open at 2pm, so I wandered around town a bit looking for a place where I could get a pocket Alberta road atlas, and for an internet terminal to use (guessing--correctly--that there ought to be one, even on a holiday weekend, since Fernie is something of a resort town).
