Amazing Race episode spotlights Lethbridge
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on July 14, 2022.
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com CTV’s hit reality series focused on Lethbridge Tuesday night, giving national exposure to a few city landmarks.Fort Whoop-Up, Helen Schuler Coulee Centre and the High Level Bridge were featured prominently in the episode that had contestants tackling two difficult challenges in the city’s river bottom. Tuesday’s was the second episode of this season’s series.
After arriving in Lethbridge from Calgary in red Chevrolet Blazers – which many have recognized from being parked at a city car dealership earlier this year, they were welcomed at a rattlesnake statue in Indian Battle Park where a traditional Siksika dance was performed. Along with an eagle feather, they were given their next clue which had them choosing between identifying seven owls by their sounds at the Helen Schuler centre or doing a counting exercise involving a herd of goats penned at the fort.
Only two teams took on the owl challenge, which was a hoot to watch as they struggled mightily to earn their clue to the next challenge. This required one team member to learn the sounds while the other read descriptions of each. Both teams, who decided to work together, failed multiple times to make the right matches.
The majority of teams chose to use their math and memory skills by adding up the numbers on goats wearing different coloured bandannas, which matched the ones contestants selected. A catch that took awhile for contestants to realize was that two goats of all bandanna colours had the same number, which cost numerous failures.
After those two challenges, contestants drove to a Subway store at the south end of Mayor Magrath Drive for a challenge involving memorizing a list of vegetables before heading to CK Fruit Market just outside the city to pick up specific numbers of those tomatoes, peppers, onions and cucumbers.
Former NHLer and Lethbridge Bronco Ron Sutter made a cameo appearance when he was asked for directions by the sibling team of Jesse and Marika who are Canmore residents and one of two Alberta teams in the competition. The other Alberta team consists of sisters Franca and Nella who live in Edmonton.
But that challenge wasn’t the last for the teams in Lethbridge – they all had to contend with a “roadblock” which had one member doing a virtual reality arcade game to music called Rythmatic at Ctrl V virtual reality arcade. Contestants had to hit 90 per cent of the VR targets before receiving their next clue.
The segment ended at the Prince of Wales Hotel in Waterton but rather than the last team being eliminated, cast and viewers learned from host Jon Montgomery the episode continues next week when they head to Fernie, B.C. which is the hometown of one cast member named Ali who is competing with her boyfriend Court. Follow @albeebHerald on Twitter 4
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