After a miserable first week of weather following our return to Canmore, it has changed for the better with a dazzling weekend and a great start to the week, today. On both Sunday and today, I got out for some good walks around the town, taking advantage of the many walking paths. I was accompanied…
Category: Alberta
Mount Assiniboine
Earlier this year, I made two posts featuring pictures from my helicopter flight to Mount Assiniboine. As happens often, I overlooked one particularly good picture on my initial review of the many shots I took on that trip. I never know how some of the better ones get missed on first inspection, but they do!…
Winter Helicopter Trip~Post #2
I’ve completed the processing of the pictures from my recent helicopter trip to Mount Assiniboine. There are quite a few (21), so rather than describe them all, I’ve chosen to throw them all into a slideshow. I think the pictures speak for themselves; I can’t add much! The slideshow includes some pictures of the Bow…
Views from Whirlpool Point
On our recent trip up the Icefields Parkway, we made a short side trip along the David Thompson Highway, eastward in the direction of Red Deer. Our destination was Whirlpool Point, a scenic lookout over the North Saskatchewan River. For my first picture, I aimed westward along the river. The Mountain in the distance is…
Ice Fields Parkway
Also known as Highway #93, this is the road between Lake Louise and Jasper, AB. It travels northwest along the Columbia Ice Fields and traverses two national parks, Banff NP and Jasper NP over its length of 207 km (128 mi). Today, accompanied by Howie Dingle I went about 1/3 of the way, turning back…