Life is continuing on pretty much the same way as it has for the last while. Finishing up my paperwork for the driving job and that should get going next week sometime. Yesterday I had a physical done and I'm healthy!! Not only that, but my blood pressure finally tested normal. Those little contraptions normally seem to stress me out. So "huzzah!" to that.
Yesterday Tracey and I went on scramble up a little (relatively speaking, of course) rock tower called "Tower of Babel". Creative..
Anywho, it was a great little day. Only about 1.5hours up and very fast down. The hike was quite steep and almost entirely scree slope. (Scree is the kind of slope that seems to be endless swathes of loose rock over avalanche slope. 2 feet up, 1 foot down with each step. Of course, going down is 2 feet extra for every step, so it balances out). Here's a picture of our route. It's more of a gully than a slope really, but you get the picture. Towards the top things got a little more interesting.
On top we were greeted with a large flat table and 360-degree views of the mountains in the Lake Louise area. The most spectacular direction was the Valley of 10 Peaks which was the subject of the backside of the old $20 Canadian Bill (check it out!) Here's what it looks like in techni-color, instead of that dreary green. This is actually (more or less) the same picture as was on the bill I think.
And a bunch of pictures of the view from the summit. First Moiraine Lake from up top (and no, there is no color modification in these photos). I guess it's largely subjective, but I don't see how anybody can think that Lake Lousie and its area of Mt Victoria etc is prettier than Moirane and the Valley of 10 Peaks. Guess the notoriety of Louise gives it that edge.
So here's us just out of the gulley. Feels a little colder :p
And at the top in this keen fort somebody left behind!!!
As we later discoved, that "fort" was actually this couch. There was also a "coffee table" and two "chairs" built up there by some group of hikers. All the comforts of home!!!
And let the 360degree view begin. This one is off back towards the Bow Valley. You can see Lake Louise ski area in the back left side and me sitting down at the edge.
One of the biggest mountains in the Canadian Rockies : Mout Temple. It's snow-covered year-round. The picture doesn't really capture just how big the mountain is not only in height, but in overall size.
The valley opposite to Moiraine Lake. That lake down there is still frozen!!
Heh. And finally some photos of us being dumb. Talk about vertigo! It was pretty overwhelming sitting on the edge, looking out over all that forest. The only man-made thing visible from there was the small road leading into the lake. Otherwise nothing but mountains, forests, and other lakes. And still enough to hear the roar of a stream 1000m below.
Yesterday Tracey and I went on scramble up a little (relatively speaking, of course) rock tower called "Tower of Babel". Creative..
Anywho, it was a great little day. Only about 1.5hours up and very fast down. The hike was quite steep and almost entirely scree slope. (Scree is the kind of slope that seems to be endless swathes of loose rock over avalanche slope. 2 feet up, 1 foot down with each step. Of course, going down is 2 feet extra for every step, so it balances out). Here's a picture of our route. It's more of a gully than a slope really, but you get the picture. Towards the top things got a little more interesting.
On top we were greeted with a large flat table and 360-degree views of the mountains in the Lake Louise area. The most spectacular direction was the Valley of 10 Peaks which was the subject of the backside of the old $20 Canadian Bill (check it out!) Here's what it looks like in techni-color, instead of that dreary green. This is actually (more or less) the same picture as was on the bill I think.
And a bunch of pictures of the view from the summit. First Moiraine Lake from up top (and no, there is no color modification in these photos). I guess it's largely subjective, but I don't see how anybody can think that Lake Lousie and its area of Mt Victoria etc is prettier than Moirane and the Valley of 10 Peaks. Guess the notoriety of Louise gives it that edge.
So here's us just out of the gulley. Feels a little colder :p
And at the top in this keen fort somebody left behind!!!
As we later discoved, that "fort" was actually this couch. There was also a "coffee table" and two "chairs" built up there by some group of hikers. All the comforts of home!!!
And let the 360degree view begin. This one is off back towards the Bow Valley. You can see Lake Louise ski area in the back left side and me sitting down at the edge.
One of the biggest mountains in the Canadian Rockies : Mout Temple. It's snow-covered year-round. The picture doesn't really capture just how big the mountain is not only in height, but in overall size.
The valley opposite to Moiraine Lake. That lake down there is still frozen!!
Heh. And finally some photos of us being dumb. Talk about vertigo! It was pretty overwhelming sitting on the edge, looking out over all that forest. The only man-made thing visible from there was the small road leading into the lake. Otherwise nothing but mountains, forests, and other lakes. And still enough to hear the roar of a stream 1000m below.
posted by Anonymous at 12:37 PM
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What beautiful pictures, however, I didn't like the "dumb" ones. I hate heights and nearly fell off my chair looking over. But it certainly is beautiful. Makes you wish you could actually live there full time and somehow make a living too instead of being in the city working. They don't have any school buses running around those mountains do they? I didn't see any schools in those woods. It must be breathtaking in person. You are so lucky.
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vertigo indeed! if you post pictures like that from rundle... i don't know if i'll be able to handle it :p
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