The Laramide Trail

    Mount Rundle Mount Norquay   How do I fill so many hours? Work proceeds in tiny increments.

  The pair of amazing rocks are next… those two strange anomalous rocks in the middle of nowhere incredible patterns On the way back Mount Rundle

  pom poms

  moraines that pencil

  Athabasca Glacier beyond the barriers barriers people on the glacier fin du sentier glacier lake ranger walk medial moraines

  They say it is one of the most spectacular drives on the planet. Started out with perfect weather. One stunning cliff after another. That whole feeling of rocks on their sides and everything tilted over. By the time we get to the Athabasca glacier the wind is extremely strong. I’m holding up the group

  Tracklines is a pilot project by Banff New Media Institute for Parks Canada. Using purpose built but soon to be open source MEE software with dedicated model mobile phones and a small GPS unit, it provided 6 stops along the Hoodoo Trail talking about the geology. Walked with Leslie Thomas, photographer and Buddhist. We

  Mount Birdwood Robertson Valley I’m too slow

  dead tree loses puffs of snow as the silence breaks Robertson Valley I’m too slow Burstall Pass Mt Birdwood from Burstall Pass Sarah Cullen and her pendulum drawing boxes Leslie (We’re too slow)

  Yep its a snow plough (or actually a grader). An invigorating walk up to Burstall Pass. Xmas postcards and Sarah Cullen’s drawing pendulum boxes. The slowest walker in knee to hip deep snow. A final climb up a snow covered slope — not looking up not looking down. Spray River valley I’m too slow

  A day to think about the past and the future. Mount Rundle and looking back to the Banff Centre from below the Bow River bridge On the river bank Whyte Museum Ouja board Whyte family possessions model of a Japanese drum shop bear skull Small tool, ammonite and native american object(?) Walking back from

  orange leaf orange leaf orange leaf two aspen (Hoodoo Trail) where squirrels eat pine cones beaver chewing beaver chewing the river flows the same (flotsam) the river flows the same (flotsam) the river flows the same (flotsam) the river flows the same (flotsam) hmmm experiment

  Bow River Falls looking over the edge downwards from the photopoint The edge of the wet area is the PT boundary on the other side of the river crash corner opposite the photopoint Some shots closer to where a trail from the Banff Centre leads down to the Hoodoo Trail