Angel Glacier, Jasper National Park
The glacier tumbles down from Mount Edith Cavell, and looks very like an angel with arms outstretched...
Lake Agnes, Banff National Park
This is about an hour and half's walk above Lake Louise
There's a lovely tea shop next to the lake - a just reward after the walk uphill!
A glacier tumbles down from the Columbia Icefield
The Columbia Icefield is one of the largest masses of ice outside the polar regions, and is the source of water for three oceans - the Arctic, Atlantic and Pacific!
Castle Mountain, Banff National Park
The top of Whistler Mountain in Jasper National Park
Elevation: 8,100 ft (we took the gondola rather than climbing!)
The Athabasca River is in the background, with the Queen Elizabeth range of mountains behind.
View from the top of Sulpher Mountain, Banff National Park
Elevation: 7,400 ft (again - there's a gondola!)
The views from here are incredible - mountains for 360 degrees!
Peyto Lake, Banff National Park
The water in many of these lakes is vivid green / blue because they are fed by glaciers. The glaciers crush the rock underneath them, making a very fine rock flour which is deposited in the lakes, and stays in suspension - absorbing all the light except green / blue.
Spirit Island and Maligne Lake, Jasper National Park
This is one of the best views in the Canadian Rockies...
Lake beneath Mount Edith Cavell, Jasper National Park
Just look at the colour of the water!
3 comments:
Wow - brilliant photos - don't let my Mrs see them, she'll want to go - and we can't afford it!
watch out....I can feel a career break a coming!!
Nice pics :o)
some absolutely beautiful pics there! Could I get an original of the still lake with big pebbles pic? :)
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