|
Register or Log In To remove these advertisements. |
|
|
|
|||||||
 |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
|
|
08-16-2018, 08:01 AM
|
#1 |
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: back 40, bc
Posts: 3,925
|
Re: post up your camping pics
they have enclosed gondola's and open chairs. son and me managed to talk wife into an open chair, which surprised me and which she regretted right away. she got a little panicky a few times, had to keep mellowing her out, but she stuck it out, even with a death grip on the bar...and this is only about 20-30 feet off the ground
she did manage to spot another prairie dog down there. as we were coming to the top, spied a grizzly up the hill further they were herding off with a couple trucks. at the top of the lift your kinda in an electronic pen. they have an electrified fence and an electrified bear strip on the ground surrounding the lift to keep out the wildlife, it's actually a common thing grizzlies wandering onto the hill. not the best, a long distance shot i had to blow up the size |
|
|
|
08-16-2018, 08:23 AM
|
#2 |
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: back 40, bc
Posts: 3,925
|
Re: post up your camping pics
bah! smoke is coming back. can barely see Lake Louise
Moraine lake was closed, which made Lake louise even more bloody busy than usual. we decided to try L. Louise later a pic of Moraine lake my wife took back in 2002... ....and how it looks if you get some decent weather... Lake Louise as well |
|
|
|
|
08-16-2018, 08:35 AM
|
#3 |
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: back 40, bc
Posts: 3,925
|
Re: post up your camping pics
we left Lake Louise, figured we'd stop by on the way back, and headed up Jasper park to the Columbia Icefield, largest non-polar concentration of glaciers.
the smoke is starting to get heavy now, wife don't like it, hard and stinky to breathe. we even had some lite ash drift down on us from somewhere hard to see the scenery....  |
|
|
|
|
08-16-2018, 08:40 AM
|
#4 |
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: back 40, bc
Posts: 3,925
|
Re: post up your camping pics
sure would have been nice to see some blue sky...
puppy p break at Waterfowl lake. can barely see the 10 000 foot mountain in the background... |
|
|
|
|
08-16-2018, 08:44 AM
|
#5 |
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: back 40, bc
Posts: 3,925
|
Re: post up your camping pics
there is mountain ranges all around us, but we can barely see just the foreground ones....
some wildlife on the road |
|
|
|
|
08-16-2018, 08:51 AM
|
#6 |
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: back 40, bc
Posts: 3,925
|
Re: post up your camping pics
ya, this blows. taste it just breathing-yucky...
after a couple hrs of driving in this soup, we came to the Icefield, just as smoky here too the icefield is a whole bunch of glaciers, we're going up on the Athabaskan glacier. lots of scouring everywhere from the retreating glaciers... |
|
|
|
|
08-16-2018, 09:05 AM
|
#7 |
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: back 40, bc
Posts: 3,925
|
Re: post up your camping pics
the Athabaskan glacier has gotten smaller than the last time we were here. it has been receeding at 15 feet per yr, that's 256 feet it has shrunk since wife and me saw it in 2002, almost a mile in the last century. the glacier is 300-900 feet thick, and the whole icefield is approx up to 3000 feet thick. it's not white or "snowy", but full of dirt and rocks, is quite brown in appearance, and you get excellent traction on it. it also tastes fantastic, thousands of yr old pure water...and no, that is not cloud, ya, it's wildfire smoke
you do have to keep an eye out for fissures though, some tourists have actually died falling into them find a fissure and drink up, look how blue and clear it is |
|
|
|
|
| Bookmarks |
|
|
Hybrid Mode
