We stayed in Cochrane two nights. The RV park is right on the Bow River and had a nice path along the river to walk on in the mornings. We visited the site of the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics.
It was amazing that the site was so small, with all the skiing events right next to each other. The TV shots make one think that the events were scattered, but that was not the case, as you can see from the pictures; the jumps were next to the downhill, the moguls, the luge, and bobsled runs. Even the skating events building was at the bottom of the hill.
We then wandered into downtown Calgary, and back to Cochrane, which was named about a cattle baron, who brought 6800 cattle from Montana in 1881, and managed to loose 2500 the first winter, and then brought another 4000 head, and they arrived in October in a big blizzard, and he lost even more, so the ranch was gone by the late 1880's, but the ranch headquarters named the town.
