Bow Valley Panorama
I composed this image of the Bow Valley while hiking a very short length of the Sawbuck Trail, a 74 km backpacking route from Banff to Lake Louise along the Sawback Mountains in Canada's Banff National Park.
The Bow Valley, through which runs the Bow River, was formed 14,000 to 31,000 years ago by the Wisconsinan glaciation, during which the ice sheet was probably 1 km thick.
Detailed scientific descriptions of the geology of this area are undoubtedly fascinating, but as a non-geologist, I have found them to be utterly incomprehensible. Best to just visit the Valley, take a deep breath and enjoy its splendour.
Bow Valley Panorama
I composed this image of the Bow Valley while hiking a very short length of the Sawbuck Trail, a 74 km backpacking route from Banff to Lake Louise along the Sawback Mountains in Canada's Banff National Park.
The Bow Valley, through which runs the Bow River, was formed 14,000 to 31,000 years ago by the Wisconsinan glaciation, during which the ice sheet was probably 1 km thick.
Detailed scientific descriptions of the geology of this area are undoubtedly fascinating, but as a non-geologist, I have found them to be utterly incomprehensible. Best to just visit the Valley, take a deep breath and enjoy its splendour.