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The Klondike Highway creeps around mountains along the shore of Tutshi Lake in British Columbia’s Stikine Region.
An early morning walk on one of the many beautiful beaches of the Pacific Rim National Park, on Vancouver Island.
Pacific Rim National Park, British Columbia, Canada. May 2022.
Eagle-Eye Tours Ultimate British Columbia.
Somewhere between Vancouver and Fort St. John we crossed these beautiful snow-covered mountains. I took advantage of a break in the cloud cover to capture this image shortly before dusk.
British Columbia, Canada. May 2022.
The Coast Mountains are a major mountain range in the Pacific Coast Ranges of western North America, extending from southwestern Yukon through the Alaska Panhandle and virtually all of the Coast of British Columbia south to the Fraser River. The mountain range's name derives from its proximity to the sea coast, and it is often referred to as the Coast Range. The range includes volcanic and non-volcanic mountains and the extensive ice fields of the Pacific and Boundary Ranges, and the northern end of the volcanic system known as the Cascade Volcanoes. The Coast Mountains are part of a larger mountain system called the Pacific Coast Ranges or the Pacific Mountain System, which includes the Cascade Range, the Insular Mountains, the Olympic Mountains, the Oregon Coast Range, the California Coast Ranges, the Saint Elias Mountains and the Chugach Mountains. The Coast Mountains are also part of the American Cordillera—a Spanish term for an extensive chain of mountain ranges—that consists of an almost continuous sequence of mountain ranges that form the western backbone of North America, Central America, South America and Antarctica.
The Coast Mountains are approximately 1,600 kilometres (1,000 mi) long and average 300 kilometres (190 mi) in width. The range's southern and southeastern boundaries are surrounded by the Fraser River and the Interior Plateau while its far northwestern edge is delimited by the Kelsall and Tatshenshini Rivers at the north end of the Alaska Panhandle, beyond which are the Saint Elias Mountains, and by Champagne Pass in the Yukon Territory. Covered in dense temperate rainforest on its western exposures, the range rises to heavily glaciated peaks, including the largest temperate-latitude ice fields in the world. On its eastern flanks, the range tapers to the dry Interior Plateau and the subarctic boreal forests of the Skeena Mountains and Stikine Plateau.
The Coast Mountains are part of the Pacific Ring of Fire—the ring of volcanoes and associated mountains around the Pacific Ocean—and contain some of British Columbia's highest mountains. Mount Waddington is the highest mountain of the Coast Mountains and the highest that lies entirely within British Columbia, located northeast of the head of Knight Inlet with an elevation of 4,019 metres (13,186 ft). (Wikipedia)
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Our best view of these majestic mountains was from the ferry as we traveled from Victoria, on Vancouver Island, back to the mainland.
Strait of Georgia, British Columbia, Canada. June 2022.
Eagle-Eye Tours - Ultimate British Columbia.
CBRW's Connell Turn continues its steady ascent out of Providence Coulee with 70 cars from BNSF in Connell, Washington..
Part of the view over Columbia Lake in the other direction, with the Rockies towering over the lake. If I had turned more to the north, you'd have seen the town Fairmont Hot Springs (but I preferred this "pure nature" view).
There were several different “rodents” running around in the fields out west. The beauty of camping along the way is that you get better opportunities to capture the wildlife around you. It was also spring when we travelled which meant lots of young life around. This Prairie Dog mom is letting her young one nurse. These animals are cute and quite social but many farmers think they are a nuisance because of all the holes they dig.
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BNSF Railway's Flathead Valley roadswitcher rolls west through Columbia Falls on the evening of January 6, 2022, as a winter storm rolls into Northwest Montana.
On the Tuesday after Labor Day 2022, the Columbia Basin ran a turn from Warden north to serve customers in the Wheeler area. The CBRW has an impressive fleet of SD9's in this attractive red, black, and white scheme. The 651 leading this train was previously on the MRL and EJ&E. They were working pretty good with this train coming up a short grade in the Atwood area about halfway between Warden and Wheeler.
A portrait of the humble and common Columbia Windflower. Taken at Clear Lake in Oregon's McKenzie wilderness.
The Columbia is controlled by dams and changes its character daily. The winter months reveal interesting new shorelines.
Columbia Lake is the primary lake at the headwaters of the Columbia River, in British Columbia, Canada. It is fed by several small tributaries. The village of Canal Flats is located at the south end of the lake.
Columbia Lake is a fresh water lake located along Highway 93 and 95, between the centres of Canal Flats and Fairmont Hot Springs in British Columbia, Canada. Its average July temperature of 18 °C makes it the largest warm water lake in the East Kootenay. It has a mean depth of only 2.9 metres (9 ft 6 in), to a maximum of 5.2 metres (17 ft), with excellent water clarity as it enjoys a much smaller volume of boat traffic than its northern neighbour, Windermere Lake.
UP 7735 leads Columbia Empties West through Wisconsin Dells, WI. With Columbia scheduled to close these trains will eventually be a thing of the past.
Who doesn't like content from the gorge !?
Discovered by pure coincidence last summer on my way to Portland, the gorge was love at first sight. Definitely a high risk high reward kind of place where weather conditions shift in a heartbeat. I don't think I can get enough of that scenery tho, can you?
Oregon Columbia Gorge Hood River, even tho the hazy clouds were arriving at dusk hiked up west cliff to see this amazing view of lush orchards & forest on a small cove finger portion of the Columbia River ..the wind was whipping holding onto a rail with a 500+ ft. drop below. Worth it to see the view!
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Columbia Gorge
Camera setting:
Canon 5D mark II camera,
Canon 24-70mm @ 24
3.2-second exposure @ f/22
LEE soft ND grad 0.9
No polarizer
ISO 50
No HDR.
When the Wheeler turn left Warden I was confused by the extra guy in the cab. There could be lots of reasons for that but I didn't expect it would be because they would split up the power when they arrived at the end of track in Wheeler. The extra guy was the engineer who would take the 171 to serve customers a little farther from Wheeler while the 2 remaining SD's switched Simplot and others right in Wheeler. The conductor for the 171 arrived in a pickup. The 2 crews worked together to switch out the cars for the 171 to take. Impressive to watch; it didn't take them long before they stuck a flag on the last of 10 cars and went off to spot them for customers.
Seen from Mount Revelstoke National Park, a view of the reservoir above the Revelstoke Dam. Revelstoke Dam is Canada's second generating project on the Columbia River and one of four dams in B.C. that regulate the flow of the Columbia.
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