Ha Ling Peak is located at the northwestern end of Mount Lawrence Grassi — a mountain located immediately south of the town of Canmore, just east of the Spray Lakes road. It is a Canmore landmark, pictured in this photograph I took on a misty summer morning in 2013. The Ha Ling Trail ascends Ha Ling Peak…
Category: Alberta
Alberta Road Trip
It’s 480 km from Canmore to Writing-on Stone Provincial Park, a journey of 5 hours and of course the same for the return trip. The drive presented numerous good photographic opportunities in the course of my travels to the park last week. Today’s subject is the sights I photographed going to and returning from the…
Writing on Stone Provincial Park
Last week, I joined two members of the Canmore Camera Club for a return trip to the Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park in southeast Alberta. I had been there two years ago and made a note to return. Writing-on-Stone is one of the largest areas of protected prairie in the Alberta park system, and serves as both a nature…
Kootenay Plains and Cline River
This past Saturday, July 18, I ventured northward along the Icefields Parkway, this time accompanied by my friend and fellow photographer, Bob Bear. We drove as far as Saskatchewan Crossing, before turning eastward on Highway 11 in the direction of Red Deer. Our destinations for the day were the Kootenay Plains Ecological Reserve and the…
Scenes from Jasper National Park
The second day of our Jasper trip was spent in the Maligne Valley, including a visit to the Maligne Canyon and a boat cruise down Maligne Lake. We did the boat cruise first, taking advantage of an earlier, less crowded boat. But, having avoided the crowds there, we arrived later at Maligne Canyon where it…