I made the crossing at Chief Mountain this past Thursday.
I was driving the rental car(heff936's) crossing both ways while heff and paul were passengers.
Going in we were "selected" by the Canadian computer for further search, so we pulled over and got out.
Both the search and the questions were routine(imo) No personal search and he just poked around in our stuff.
Delay was
maybe 10-15 minutes.
Coming back to the US was OK.
Didn't have to leave the car. Questions were appropriate. He wanted to know how we knew each other. 3 guys from all over in a rental car prompted that imo.
We told him about the chat
So we weren't hassled here.
However, one of the two Border Agents at Goat Haunt was a bit obnoxious.
The National Park Ranger was very nice and a cool guy.
I was taking a video of heff and paul talking to the Park Service Ranger about their food drop, etc. when one of the two agents shouted "I don't want my picture taken sir".
And it was clear from his "attitude" that he wasn't kidding....so I stopped videoing.
However, I did manage to refrain from clicking my heels and saying Aye Aye Sir.
pocketlint
PS
We rode the boat down to Goat Haunt. Nice ride and I recommend doing it, but buy a round trip ticket.
The 9+ mile walk back to Waterton from Goat Haunt is not much fun. 1200+ ft elv change, all of it on last half. Up you go only to lose it. Then up again, lose it again. Profile on last 4 miles looks like a ringing sine wave.
Not very scenic. Just a few places where you can see the lake.
Can't recommend it. Stay on the boat