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Image on right: The highest peak in the Canadian
Rockies towers 7500 feet above blue-green Berg Lake, a beautiful
backpacking destination in British Columbia, Canada. This photograph of
Mount
Robson (3,954 meters / 12,972 feet elevation) also appears in my Porfolio of Published Images (Sierra, 2004).
Left: A yellow canoe crosses blue-green Moraine Lake (see more further below), in Valley of the Ten Peaks, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. (Click any image to see more from the area.)
Below: Water falls through Johnston Canyon, Banff NP, Alberta during autumn leaf color season.
[This
image was licensed by Tennessee Valley
Bottling
Company, Alabama, for use in a 1/4 page marketing screening for a water
bottle label.]
Above: Peaks of Banff National Park refelct in Herbert Lake near Lake Louise. [Published
on the cover of John Steel Rail Tours corporate brochure 2006, www.johnsteel.com.]
Above: Beautiful blue-green Peyto Lake, Mistaya Mountain, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. (Panorama stitched from 3 images.)
Above: A pond south of Sentinel Pass reflects nine of the summits of the
Valley of the Ten Peaks, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. The
peaks in this image are (left to right) Mounts Fay (3235 meters /
10,613 feet), Little (3088 m / 10,131 ft), Bowlen (3,072 m / 10,079
ft), Tonsa (3,057 m / 10,030 ft), Perren (3,051 m / 10,010 ft), Allen
(3,310 m / 10,860 ft), Tuzo (3,246 m / 10,650 ft), Deltaform (3,424 m /
11,234 ft), and Neptuak (3,233 m / 10,607 ft). (Panorama stitched from 3 images.)
Below: A bicyclist rides beneath sharp peaks in Banff
National Park near Sunwapta Pass. Click here to read about our 5-day athletic adventure "Bicycling
Icefields Parkway, Jasper to Banff."
Above: Bow Lake, Crowfoot Mountain, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. (Panorama stitched from 6 images.)
Above: Saskatchewan Glacier and orange lichen seen from
Parker Ridge, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. (Panorama stitched
from 2 images.)
Below: A mountain goat takes his vitamins at a mineral salt lick in Kootenay
National Park, British Columbia.
(Click any image to see more from the area.)
Bighorn Sheep
Left: We bicycled right by these feisty young Rocky Mountain
Bighorn
Sheep who were climbing a road cut on the Bow Valley Parkway, Banff
National
Park.
Below right: Wild rocky mountain bighorn
sheep at Radium Hot
Springs, in Kootenay
National Park, British Columbia.
Left: Fog clears from Mount Robson (3954 meters / 12,972 feet), which is a stunning mountain in
the Rainbow Range. Berg Glacier and Berg Lake, Mount Robson
Provincial Park of British Columbia, Canada.
(Click any image to see more from the area.)
Below: A composite flower (probably an aster) with purple extensions and yellow center, grows in Mount Robson Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada.
Above: A waterfall plunges into a small cirque from a source on Snowbird Pass, above the toe of the Robson
Glacier, a water source for Berg Lake, in Mount Robson Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada. (Panorama stitched from 5 images.)
Left: Mount Robson in late September with red and yellow fall foliage
in the foreground. Mount Robson Provincial Park, one of the
oldest in British Columbia, contains the headwaters of the Fraser River.
Below: Ancient orange and black rock pattern, Mount Robson Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada.
Above: This is the more familiar Mount Robson view, from Highway 16
(The "Yellowhead Route" between Jasper and Tete Jaune Cache), with
pretty yellow leaves and white trunks of aspen trees.
On Mount Edith Cavell, Angel Glacier lies in a cirque above Cavell
Glacier and Cavell Pond, in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada.
For more Jasper images, see Jasper National Park and Bicycling
Icefields Parkway, Jasper to Banff
Left: Lake Magog reflects Mount Assiniboine in British Columbia, Canada.
(Click any image to see more from the area.)
Below right: the steep pyramid of Mount
Assiniboine, the "Matterhorn of Canada", rises high above larch trees
which are turning yellow in late September.
Above: Sunrise light on the Rockwall at Floe Lake, in Kootenay
National Park, British Columbia..
Left: Emerald Lake Lodge, Yoho National Park. [Published
in Wilderness
Travel 2004 Catalog of Adventures.]
Below: Over hundreds of years, lichen has etched polygon patterns into a rock at Yoho National Park.
To see worldwide highlights of my abstract images,
see My Fine Art Gallery: Abstracts.
Left: Lichen pattern, Yoho National Park, British Columbia. [To
see highlights of my worldwide abstract images, see My Fine Art Gallery: Abstracts.]
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A hail storm broods over a larch forest turned yellow in autumn, in Yoho National Park,
British Columbia. Lake O'Hara offers several beautiful hikes including this trail.
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"Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park World Heritage Site"
is comprised of: 1) Waterton Lakes National Park
in Alberta, Canada and 2) Glacier National Park,
Montana, USA.
Above: An unusually calm day graces Waterton
Lake, at
Waterton Park
Campground, Alberta, Canada. (Click any image to see more from the area.)
Left: Red Rock Canyon, Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada.
Below right: Hikers are dwarfed by colorful Carthew Pass, Waterton
Lakes National
Park, Alberta,
Canada.
Above: A colorful stream bed glows in Red Rock Canyon, in the Clark
Range, Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta,
Canada.
Above: Mount Garibaldi (2678 meters) and Garibaldi Lake,
seen from the Black Tusk, in Garibaldi Provincial
Park, British Columbia. Lava erupting from Price Mountain (furthest right) formed The
Barrier, a natural dam which created 300-meter deep Garibaldi Lake.
Above: We paddle our fully loaded canoe in Bowron Lake Provincial Park, British Columbia. (Click any image to see more from the area.)
Left: Orange light of sunrise strikes Snowpatch Spire (10,050 feet) and reflects in
a tarn (alpine pond), in Bugaboo Provincial Park, BC, Canada..
Below: Sextet Ridge Glacier and larch trees in the fall, in Bugaboo Provincial Park, BC, Canada.
Left: Red fireweed emerges from other colorful foliage, in Bugaboo Provincial Park, BC, Canada..
(Click any image to see more from the area.)
Below right: Sunset light on the Rocky Mountains seen from Conrad Kain
Hut, in Bugaboo Provincial Park, BC, Canada.
Copyright 1995-2008 by Tom
Dempsey. Photographs may not be copied without permission.
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