Yesterday, accompanied by good friend and fellow photographer Bob Bear, I enjoyed a beautiful day in the Rockies, hiking and taking photographs. Our hike began at the Num-Ti-Jah Lodge situated on the shores of Bow Lake, about 40 km northwest of Lake Louise on the Icefields Parkway. It’s a moderate hike, 9.2 km (5.7 miles)…
Category: Hiking
Return to the Stanley Glacier
Yesterday, accompanied by Bob Bear and Hugh Williamson, I returned to the Stanley Glacier, a photo site Bob and I visited last year. We returned with the hope of having better conditions for photography than we did on our last visit, hampered on that occasion by smoke from forest fires, primarily in the U.S. Northwest. (You…
Badger Spring Wash
Today I went for a hike with the Terravita Trekkers, our community hiking club. It was my first outing with the group, with 13 other hikers in attendance. Our destination for the day was the Badger Spring Wash Trail, located in the Agua Fria National Monument, north of Phoenix. A National Monument is a protected area that is similar to a National Park, but can be…
West Wind Pass
Yesterday, I marked the Labour Day Holiday with a hike up into the mountains in the area behind Canmore. I was accompanied by Tammy Howell and her friend Jeff Winkelstein. It’s a short drive from home, about 23 km or about 30 minutes to the trailhead on the Smith-Dorrien Highway. From the trailhead, it’s a…
Headwall Lakes, Kananaskis
The Headwall Lakes are located about 40 km south of Canmore, on the Spray Lakes Road. They lie in a valley between two mountains, Mt. Chester and Mt. James Walker at an elevation of ~2,300 metres (7,545 ft.) The upper lake spills into the lower lake, which in turn drains via Headwall Creek into Smith-Dorrien Creek then south…