Today’s posted photo was taken during my recent visit to Marble Canyon in Kootenay NP. As mentioned in the prior blog, this area was devastated by fire in 2003. The forest is renewing, albeit slowly. Fires are a natural process (although not always attributable to natural causes). It’s nature’s way of regenerating the forests and…
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Marble Canyon
Today I made a morning trip to Marble Canyon, accompanied by friend and fellow photographer, Bob Bear. Marble Canyon is located in Kootenay National Park, just off Highway 93, a short distance south of the continental divide in British Columbia. It’s about a 45 minute trip from Canmore. The canyon is very narrow and deep,…
Columbia Icefields
Yesterday, I made a brief visit to the Columbia Icefields Center, located on the Icefields Parkway between Lake Louise and Jasper, AB. I was accompanied by my cousins Paula, Valorie and Jennifer and their husbands Pat and John. While they made the trip onto the Athabasca Glacier, I took the opportunity to take a few…
Lower Bankhead
Bankhead, Alberta was a small coal mining town that existed in the early twentieth century in Banff National Park, near the town of Banff, Alberta. The mine was located at Cascade Mountain, which contains high grade anthracite coal deposits. The Bankhead coal mine was operated by the Pacific Coal Company, a subsidiary of the Canadian…
Two Jack Lake
Today’s excursion was to Two Jack Lake, a short distance north of the Town of Banff. It is one of several lakes in this area which offer a nice combination of water and mountain scenery. We arrived in time for the sunrise but the heavy overcast prevented any bright colour in the morning sky. The light was…