Travelling up from Edmonton was pretty mundane- until we sighted the Rockies themselves. From the first they were majestic- rising up to 10 thousand feet Some of the views were fantastic, awesome as the North Americans are prone to say.
Unfortunately the weather wasn't always on our side; often overcast, occasional rain, not good for taking photos. However while we were travelling we almost ran down a wolf, ran across the road and we had to brake sharply. But once again, too fast for our camera.
As we travelled we came across a lot of small rivers, this one feeds into the main river in this area, the Athabasca. (below) The Athabasca runs from the glaciers down to the plains and then empties into the Arctic Ocean, many many miles away, and drains all this North West side of the Rockies.
Here it is white, still extremely cold, just as it came off the glacier, the white is glacial silt, very fine powder ground from the underside of the falling ice.
Today we travelled up the Maligne river road, visiting the Maligne Canyon of the way. It is certainly impressive, sometimes over 100 mtrs deep, with a river running through.At times it disappears underground, to re-appear a few metres later.
We travelled on to Medicine Lake, the home of Caribou, unfortunately they were feeling shy today, so they did not come out to play. We did see a huge black bear in the distance, too far, and as usual, too quick for us to get a shot.
Some more pics from our travels:
Maligne Lake
Some snow still left on the tops.
360 million years old limestone ridge.
A few sharp peaks, around 8-10 thousand feet.
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