Herbert Lake in the still, cool morning, vapors floating across its unruffled waters, which reflect the mountains that surround Lake Louise. The brown-peaked one in the middle is Fairview Mtn; to your right are Mount St Piram and Mount NIblock; obscured to your left by morning fog is ice-capped Mount Temple.
31 August 2002, Icefields Parkway, Banff National Park, Alberta
Kodak Portra 400NC
Contax 645, 80mm, f8.0 1/60
I believe this is the Bow River Valley north of Hector Lake, with Bow Peak, but my map is deficient here.
AM, 31 August 2002, Icefields Parkway, Banff National Park, Alberta
Kodak Portra 400NC
Contax 645, 80mm, f8.0 1/125
Pulpit Peak, South of Hector Lake. (I believe)
AM, 31 August 2002, Banff National Park, Alberta
Kodak Portra 400NC
Contax 645, 80mm, f8.0 1/125
The clouds ease slowly across the sky, and if you simply wait patiently, the scene is the same and yet transformed by changes in light and shadow.
AM, 31 August 2002, Banff National Park, Alberta
Kodak Portra400NC
Contax 645, 80mm, f11.0 1/180 sec
Waterfowl Lake; Mount Chephren looming beyond. AM, 31 August 2002. Banff National Park, Alberta
Kodak Portra 400NC
Contax 645, 80mm, f11.0 1/350
Saskatchewan Crossing, looking NE down the Saskatchewan River valley. Resolute Mountain is in the distance, Mount Cline in the middle, and the flank of Mount Wilson at the left. The altitude is about 1400 meters.
Banff National Park, Alberta
Kodak Portra 400NC
Contax 645, 80mm, f11.0 1/125 sec
Saskatchewan Crossing, looking west, toward the Howse River. The peak at right is Survey Peak, 8781 ft / 2676m; the peak at left is Mount Outram, 10,630 ft / 3240m.
Banff National Park, Alberta
Kodak Portra 400NC
Contax 645, 80mm, f11.0 1/125 sec
The slate face of Endless Chain Ridge gisters in sunlight on a rainy day.
Canada Highway 93, near Sunwapta Falls, looking east.
2 September 2002
Kodak Portra 800 35mm
Canon z90w
This is probably the "weeping wall" but my memory and map fail me.
31 August 2002, Banff National Park, Alberta
Kodak Portra 400NC
Contax 645, 80mm, f11.0 1/250 sec
This is probably the "weeping wall" but my memory and map fail me.
31 August 2002, Banff National Park, Alberta
Kodak Portra 400NC
Contax 645, 80mm, f11.0 1/350 sec
I believe that this is Bounday Glacier and Hilda Peak, with Hilda Creek in the foreground. If not, it's nearby. I apologize; I should have asked The Lady Isabelle to drive; then I could have made accurate notes before I forgot where we were, but to do that I would also have had to have bought ahead of time a detailed map with peak names, which I was too cheap to do on the first time because the good maps are $8-11 each and there are 11 maps. Sigh.
31 August, North end of Banff National Park, Alberta
Kodak Portra 400NC
Contax 645, 80mm, f11.0 1/125 sec
Snow Dome seen looking west from Icefields Parkway, a glimpse of the Columbia Icefield behind to the left.
We are looking west from Canada Highway 93, the folks in the car being too busy traveling to get out and walk. The sky is brilliant; a rim of high cloud is cresting the mountaintops, harbinger of tonight's rain and snow. On your left is the shoulder of Mount Athabasca, center is Snow Dome (3459 m / 1,340 ft) behind a lower subpeak and on the right, capped with a thin-seeming line of ice, is Mount Kitchener. Between them is a bit of the Dome Glacier sticking its giant tongue out at thousands of tourists. The Athabasca glacier, directly behind the shoulder of Mt. Athabaska, is an extension of the Columbia Icefield, 325 sq km of ice up to 365 meters deep. Global warming has not yet turned this into a lake, but is instead chipping humbly, inexorably, at the edges.
31 August 2002, Jasper National Park, Alberta
Kodak Portra 400NC
Contax 645, 80mm, f11.0 1/350 sec
A beautiful wave cloud over the Winston Churchill Range, Jasper National Park, Alberta, 31 August 2002.
Kodak Portra 800 35mm, Canon z90w, 28mm, auto exposure
At the top of Mount Athabasca (L) and Mount Andromeda (in cloud) are the tumbled forms of "rotor" cloud and above this the majesty of a wave cloud. Looking south from the Icefields Parkway. Thanks to John Lundgren for mountain ID.
31 August 2002, Jasper National Park, Alberta
Kodak Portra 400NC
Contax 645, 80mm, f16.0 1/250 sec
Wave cloud over the Winston Churchill Range.
A weather system is moving in that will bring rain and clear, cool air.
31August 2002
Kodak Portra 800 35mm, Canon z90w, 28mm
The Sunwapta River threads through a mountain of terminal moraine. Beyond are Mt. Athabasca on the left and Mt. Andromeda in cloud, and a turbulent sky above.
31 August 2002, Jasper National Park, Alberta
Kodak Portra 400NC
Contax 645, 80mm, f11.0 1/125 sec
Stacked wave clouds over the northern end of the Winston Churchill Range, Jasper National Park, 31 August, 2002. These clouds were very dynamic, changing slowly, continuously, as we watched.
The whole of Tangle Falls.
31 August 2002
Fuji NPZ 800
Contax 645, 80mm, f22.0 1/20 (tripod)
Tangle Falls upper portion. Tangle Creek flows off Tangle Ridge westward into the Sunwapta River. It's close enough to Hiway 93, the Icefields Parkway, that everybody can stop and have a look.
31 August 2002, Jasper national Park, Alberta
Fuji NPZ800
Contax 645, 80mm, f8.0 1/180
I've forgotten which glacier this is. I'm sorry.
2 September 2002, Jasper National Park, Alberta
Kodak Portra 800
Contax 645, 80mm, f16.0 1/90 sec
Large bipedal creature walks from its portable rented self-powered den, casting a wary eye on frumpy male holding camera. His mate is rampant on a chair nearby. The remains of a meal lay on a nearby table.
2 September 2002, Meeting of the Waters (Athabasca River), Jasper Park, Alberta
Kodak Portra 800 35mm, Canon z90w
This mountain flanking the Mistaya River shows very clearly the effects of avalanches: the trees are simply mowed down.
2 September 2002, Jasper Park, Alberta
Kodak Portra 800 35mm; Canon z90w
Storm clouds over the Athabasca Flowage. 2 September 2002, Jasper National Park, Alberta
Kodak Portra 400NC
Contax 645, 80mm, f22.0 1/350 sec
The Athabasca River flowing NW near Mt. Christie, looking toward Mount Cavell. 2 September 2002, Jasper National Park, Alberta
Kodak Portra 400NC
Contax 645, 80mm, f16.0 1/500 sec
No, I don't know the name of this mountain, but that's not the point.
Overnight snow has nicely outlined the strata of this peak, which curve from vertical on the left to nearly horizontal on the right. Bending rock, a nice trick!
2 September 2002, Somewhere along the Icefields Parkway in Jasper Park, probably in the Winston Churchill Range near the Saskatchewan River Crossing.
Kodak Portra 800 35mm; Canon z90w
Afternoon clouds over the Athabasca River,
2 September 2002, Jasper National Park, Alberta
Kodak Portra 400NC
Contax 645, 80mm, f11.0 1/180 sec
Here, in the northern part of Banff National Park, the mountains intersect dramatically with the sky, their strata are clear, outlned nearth peak by fresh snow.
2 September 2002, Alberta
Kodak Portra 400NC
Contax 645, 80mm, f16.0 1/250 sec
We are looking straight south toward the orgin of the Sunwapta River. The flank of Mushroom Peak is at right; the Athabaska Glacier is at left front center on, as you may expect, Mount Athabaska, and poking its vertex into cloud is Mount Andromeda, as pointed out by John Lundgren.
2 September 2002, Jasper National Park, Alberta
Kodak Portra 400NC
Contax 645, 80mm, f16.0 1/500 sec
A stream, glowing in the afternoon sun, tumbles headlong out of the McGuire Valley toward the Sunwapta River. At the top is Mount McGuier, 2029m, 10,135 ft.
2 September 2002, Jasper National Park, Alberta
Kodak Portra 400NC
Contax 645, 80mm, f11.0 1/125 sec
Sunwapta Peak looms snowily over the Sunwapta River.
2 September 2002, Jasper National Park, Alberta
Kodak Portra 400NC
Contax 645, 80mm, f16.0 1/350 sec
The Sunwapta River flowage, looking south, near the Warden station.
2 September 2002, Jasper National Park, Alberta
Kodak Portra 400NC
Contax 645, 80mm, f11.0 1/500 sec
Endless Chain Ridge and the Sunwapta River Valley, looking east. 2 September 2002, Jasper National Park, Alberta.
Kodak Portra 400NC
Contax 645, 80mm, f11.0 1/350 sec
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