Rocky Mountains @en
now browsing by tag
Jasper National Park & South Alaska Highway
Continuing my journey in Canadian Rockies.
1. Going up the Maligne Valley in Jasper National Park.
2. Allong the road, meeting with a small group of big horn sheeps and calfs.
3. Likely only a few weeks old…
4. Maligne River.
5. And here are some variations on the beautiful Maligne Lake. In the rain first…
6. A gap emerges in the clouds.
7. Some light now…
8. … then a new shower arriving.
That concludes this series on the Rocky Mountains, for now at least.
VivaLaVida continued on the road to the north and entered the Alaska Highway in Dawson Creek, British Columbia. This highway was built in the forties and is completely paved since aboute ten years. It connects Dawson Creek to Anchorage, more than 1,700 miles away.
9. A wooden curved bridge on Old Alaskan Highway.
10. Great construction!
11. Nice Spring Flower Lake in Stone Mountain Provincial Park.
12. I attended to ice sheets driven into the river that flows from Lake crashing on the rocks in a noise like a thousand of bells chime … Too bad I can not make you listen at… 🙂
13. Camp along McDonald Creek. It’s 11 PM, the days get longer as I move north…
14. A bird I don’t remember the English name. Difficult to approach, it took me quite a few attempts to achieve…
15. Muncho Lake along the Alaska Highway.
16. Along the trail to hot springs, in a clearing, I first saw this male forest bison, a subspecies endemic to Canada that has adapted to life in the forest.
17. On my guard because these behemoths have bad reputation, I discovered in a meadow a little further a herd with calfs of the year.
18. Marsh created by the sulfur springs that flow there. This water creates a unique ecosystem, with small fishes that can live only in the hot water. It is also very frequented by mammals which appreciate this highly mineralized water instead.
That ends my journey across British Columbia. I’ll take you soon discover a some of the Yukon… 😉
Banff NP & Icefield Parkway
These Canadian Rockies are gorgeous. I continued to explore those looping south of Banff, a grouse mountain station 1:30 away from Calgary. I’m then past in Alberta.
1. Castle Mountain, only some miles North of Banff.
2. A male sheep that I managed to get close to.
3. An elk.
4. Small detour to the so much photographed Moraine Lake in late afternnon.
5. Last sunrays…
6. The first porcupine I saw. A real punk haircut! 😀 It was almost night, thank high ISO of Sony A99!
I then drove the Icefield Parkway to Jasper.
7. At about 7,000 feet elevation, lakes are still frozen.
8. Wild Mistaya Canyon under rain.
9. These mountains are really wild…
10. On the way back of my hike, encounter with a plantigrade who ate dandelions! Surprising to see this brown bear grazing like an herbivorous!
11. Further along the Icefield Parkway, the Sunwapta Upper Falls.
12. Still some miles further, the very wellknown and touristic Athabasca Falls.
13. Athabasca Canyon cliffs in a timid sunshine ray.
14. Small incursion into a side valley to discover the Moab Lake.
15. This mountain lake is removed, I was there completely alone after more than three hours walking.
16. Back in the main valley at the confluence of two rivers.
17. His insistent cries made me realize that I was in its territory. Sorry for the intrusion..! 😉
18. Impressive north face of Edith Cavell with Angel Glacier Mountain. You see the angel’s wings ..? 😀 Several avalanches descended while I was walking to reach this point of view.
19. My camp for this night at abot 7,000 feet elevation, with the same mountain in background.
20. Sunset on Tonkin Valley, on the other side…
The next update will show you some image of Jasper National Park in a couple of days…
Thank you for your loyalty to follow this blog:-D
From Montana to Canada
From Butte I continue my way North visiting Glacier National Park. More than some small glacier that still subsist – but for how long? – it’s a land of mountains and lakes.
1. Allong the road, a funny oldtimer hitch!
2. Kintla Lake, retired and wild. I paddled it ti the and, 4 hours round trip…
3. General Store at Polebridge. The pastries were top! 😉
4. Tumultuous McDonald River.
5. South Fork Flathead River.
6. Thunderstorm on Two Medicine Upper Lake.
7. Totally other atmosphere the next morning at 5:30 then it freezes..!
8. Lower Two Medicine Lake, an artificial reservoir.
9. Another large lake, the St-Mary Lake. Logan Pass was still in winter closure, so I didn’t get to go…
10. From the mountain bike single track.
11. From the trail to Grinnell Glacier where I was also stopped by snow.
Then I crossed the canadian border and headed to Banff National Park, in the Canadian Rockies.
12. Kootenay River.
14. Highway like in tourism advertising..!
15. Numa Falls.
16. Sunset from my camp.
17. Discovery of ocher deposits in the Kootenay Valley, more precisely a source rich in iron which deposits ocher. This material was used as a dye by the Indians, pounded before cooked, then re-pounded to get an orange powder. Mixed with melted fat, it was one of the colors used for petrographs, some of which are still visible several thousand years later.
18. Wolf tracks, the first I saw there. They are big as my hand..!
19. Ascent to the source…
20. … here it is.
Following of my discovery of the Canadian Rocky to come soon… 😀
D5 Creation