After six great days in the Canadian Rockies, Stephanie and I are back in Calgary this evening, with a scheduled departure for the U.S.A. tomorrow morning.
Over the next few weeks, I'm going to post pictures from our trip. This picture may have been the best shot that I took all week. I took it last Friday morning, as Steph and I drove to Moraine Lake, above Lake Louise, Alberta. Our entire day at Moraine Lake was fantastic, and the view on our way there, captured here, was the first of many highlights.
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Nice shot. What elevation were you at? How high is the peak?
Looks like I originally put up a different version of this shot than I had intended. I prefer the current version (although the difference is subtle).
As for elevation, I am not exactly certain. Just below where I took this shot, there is a lake with an elevation of 6183 feet, meaning that I stood a bit higher than that when I took the shot. My best is guess would be in the neighborhood of 6500 feet. As for the peaks in the picture, again, I am not absolutely certain. The three highest peaks in that shot are part of ten peaks that tower above a scenic valley descriptively called "The Valley of the Ten Peaks." While I must admit that I don't know which peak is which, the summits of those 10 mountains range between 10,030 and 11,234 feet.
To give you a sense of scale, the lake is just behind the trees on the right of the image. As a result, you are looking at more than 4000 feet (better than 3/4 of a mile) of vertical rock.
One other things that I would notice about the shot if I hadn't been there this week... Roughly in the middle of the image, there is what appears to be a large amount of snow. In fact, it's one of the many glaciers found high in the Canadian Rockies. Here's a closer look at one such glacier- this one was actually found above Emerald Lake in Yoho National Park.
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