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Spikes of ice
Clark's Nutcracker / Nucifraga columbiana
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"Canoe with three warriors", by Team Sakha from Ru…
Clark's Nutcracker
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The beauty of Lake Louise
When winter really was winter
Clark's Nutcracker
Ice carving at Lake Louise
Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel
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Lichen at Peyto Lake
Wildflowers at Peyto Lake
Castle Mountain
Majestic Castle Mountain
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Cascade Mt., Banff
Lake Louise on a rainy day
Juvenile White-crowned Sparrow
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Strawberries and cream fungus
Mistaya Canyon, Icefields Parkway
Ice castle at Lake Louise, 2008
Lower Falls, Johnston Canyon, Kananaskis
As beautiful as it gets
Bow Lake - Impressive Art
Pink sentinels
Fragile rock brake fern / Cryptogramma-stelleri
Bold and simple
Coral Fungus sp
Splendour
The beginning of fall
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Silene sp
Little alien at Lake Louise
Fiery Fireweed in its fall colours
Magnificent Peyto Lake
Just for fun
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With or without people?
Looking towards Bow Glacier and Bow Glacier Falls
River Beauty
Wish List clouds
Num-Ti-Jah Lodge, Bow Lake
Tree Frog Campervan
Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel
A beautiful place to reflect
Pressia quadrata Liverwort
Moraine Lake
Storm clouds a-brewing
Man versus nature
Castle Mountain
Ice sculpture 2
Peaks around Banff
My best penguin impersonation
Bohemian Waxwing with berry
Beautiful Moraine Lake
The reward of a long, uphill hike
Moraine Lake in the rain
Rocky Mountains around Canmore, near Banff
Fall in the Rockies
Cloud dominance
Moraine Lake
Cascade Ponds, near Banff, Alberta
Rain clouds over Two Jack Lake, near Banff
Vermilion Lakes near Banff
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Dawn over the Rockies - at Canmore, Alberta
Elk near Canmore
Fall giving way to winter
Glorious fall colours in Larch Valley
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Majestic Castle Mountain
I so rarely get to see this incredible mountain, so I'm always thrilled when I do see it. Taken on 15 May 2014, the second day of a two-day trip in the Canadian Rockies with friends, Cathy and Terry. We had seen the mountain on the first day, but didn't stop. On our return journey to Calgary the following day, we stopped and walked down to the river, where we were able to get a different view of this mountain.
"Castle Mountain is a mountain located within Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies, approximately half-way between Banff and Lake Louise. It is the easternmost mountain of the Main Ranges in the Bow Valley and sits astride the Castle Mountain Fault, which has thrust older sedimentary and metamorphic rocks forming the upper part of the mountain over the younger rocks forming its base. The mountain's castellated, or castle-like, appearance is a result of erosive processes acting at different rates on the peak's alternating layers of softer shale and harder limestone, dolomite and quartzite.
The mountain was named in 1858 by James Hector for its castle-like appearance. From 1946 to 1979 it was known as Mount Eisenhower in honour of the World War II general Dwight D. Eisenhower. Public pressure caused its original name to be restored, but a pinnacle on the southeastern side of the mountain was named Eisenhower Tower. Located nearby are the remains of Silver City, a 19th century mining settlement, and the Castle Mountain Internment Camp in which persons deemed enemy aliens and suspected enemy sympathizers were confined during World War I." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Mountain
"Castle Mountain is a mountain located within Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies, approximately half-way between Banff and Lake Louise. It is the easternmost mountain of the Main Ranges in the Bow Valley and sits astride the Castle Mountain Fault, which has thrust older sedimentary and metamorphic rocks forming the upper part of the mountain over the younger rocks forming its base. The mountain's castellated, or castle-like, appearance is a result of erosive processes acting at different rates on the peak's alternating layers of softer shale and harder limestone, dolomite and quartzite.
The mountain was named in 1858 by James Hector for its castle-like appearance. From 1946 to 1979 it was known as Mount Eisenhower in honour of the World War II general Dwight D. Eisenhower. Public pressure caused its original name to be restored, but a pinnacle on the southeastern side of the mountain was named Eisenhower Tower. Located nearby are the remains of Silver City, a 19th century mining settlement, and the Castle Mountain Internment Camp in which persons deemed enemy aliens and suspected enemy sympathizers were confined during World War I." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Mountain
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