ROCKY MOUNTAINS of CANADA

NATIONAL PARKS
BANFF NP

Vermillion Lakes & Mt Rundle. I climbed Mt Rundle in 1996.

Lake Louise. Mount Victoria is in the background. I climbed it in 1998.

Moraine Lake “The $10 Bill Peaks”. I’ve climbed five of them on a 7-day Alpine Club of Canada trip in 1997.

ICEFIELDS PARKWAY

Peyto Lake. We dropped down to the west shore of the lake and ascended the Wapta Icefield, a great 5-day trek.

MOUNT ROBSON PROVINCIAL PARK
Mt Robson (3954m, 12,972 ft), is the highest mountain in the Canadian Rockies.
Access by the two-day Berg Lake Trail. I did this in 2008.

Emperor Falls, Berg Lake Trail

YOHO NATIONAL PARK

Takakkaw Falls. 373 metres (1,224 ft) high, the second-tallest waterfall in Canada. The main drop of the waterfall has a height of 254 metres (833 ft). Fed by the Daly Glacier, part of the Waputik Icefield, the glacier keeps the volume of the falls up during the warm summer months.

Lake O’Hara. My favourite place in the Canadian Rockies.
Burgess Shale. The Canadian Rockies consist of sedimentary rock, with numerous fossil deposits. In particular, the Burgess Shale, in Yoho National Park, has among the world’s richest deposits of rare fossils.

KOOTENAY NATIONAL PARK

Rock Wall Trail. I did this 4-day trek in 2005.

Floe Lake

MOUNT ASSINIBOINE 3,618 m (11,870 ft). The highest mountain in the southern Rockies. I went on a 5-day Alpine Club of Canada trek to climb the mountain in 2004

WATERTON LAKES NATIONAL PARK. Forms an international peace park with Glacier National Park in Montana. I spent 17 summers in Waterton where my wife’s family had a cabin. I climbed every mountain including many in Glacier NP (the north part can only be accessed via Waterton Lakes.

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I would like to think of myself as a full time traveler. I have been retired since 2006 and in that time have traveled every winter for four to seven months. The months that I am "home", are often also spent on the road, hiking or kayaking. I hope to present a website that describes my travel along with my hiking and sea kayaking experiences.