42842 Rock Lake 1988
Why I like BC, reason #3: its spectacular wilderness. Here's a sample - morning at Rock Lake, in Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park, in the Canadian Rockies. Of course, what looks fabulous doesn't always feel great, and the truth is that this was one of the coldest backpacking trips I ever attempted. I was hit with a major snowfall in the 3rd week of September, and camped here for three nights before turning back. That nub of a white peak in the background left is actually towering Mount Assiniboine, my destination, but this was as close as I got to it on that trip. The snow in the passes was deep. So it goes. This was the single sunny morning of the trip; the other days it was either snowing or the valley was filled with fog from evaporation. An hour after I shot this image, the fog rolled in and the warmth vanished. But it sure was beautiful...
Scanned from the original Kodachrome 64 slide, September 1988.
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42842 Rock Lake 1988
Why I like BC, reason #3: its spectacular wilderness. Here's a sample - morning at Rock Lake, in Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park, in the Canadian Rockies. Of course, what looks fabulous doesn't always feel great, and the truth is that this was one of the coldest backpacking trips I ever attempted. I was hit with a major snowfall in the 3rd week of September, and camped here for three nights before turning back. That nub of a white peak in the background left is actually towering Mount Assiniboine, my destination, but this was as close as I got to it on that trip. The snow in the passes was deep. So it goes. This was the single sunny morning of the trip; the other days it was either snowing or the valley was filled with fog from evaporation. An hour after I shot this image, the fog rolled in and the warmth vanished. But it sure was beautiful...
Scanned from the original Kodachrome 64 slide, September 1988.
Don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without explicit permission.
© James R. Page - all rights reserved.