A Celebration of Western Movies… Pardner!
Blue Canadian Rockies / Vera Lynn
The Columbia Icefields seem massive. Yet year by year, the glaciers recede.
Soon to be gone.
Scientists say they will gone in 80 years.
Google Maps image of Columbia Icefield and area
Soon to be the Columbia gravel pit.
Panorama shot
See those dots?
Those are people.
But we missed our scheduled Icefield Tour.
Have to come back tomorrow.
See you then.
Fire Prayer / Denean
Below Castle Mountain
Cirrus Mountain (left)
Hilda Peak (right) looks a little like the Matterhorn of Switzerland.
Athabasca Mountain with glacier in the Centre.
Finally! The Columbia Icefields!
We head into the Columbia Icefield Visitors Centre
My amateur video. Suggest you play on HD and .75 speed
– adjust in lower right.
Wonders to behold.
Where to now St. Peter / Elton John
Mountains are sort of like flowers.
Only bigger.
Heading out from Calgary. Rockies ahead.
Apology: A lot of these are going to be pedestrian quality images – tourist shots.
Every mountain has it’s own personality.
Was Mount Eisenhower for many years. Could have left it that way.
He was worthy of a Mountain.
Probably one of the most photographed mountains in the world.
Majestic, Amazing, Powerful
A Minor Ballad / Gordon Lightfoot
“If Lake Louise is a pearl, Maligne is the entire pearl necklace.”
– Mary Schäffer
Just in case you thought I snitched this photo of Spirit Island at Jasper off the Net …
I didn’t. That’s mine.
I could easily have done that though – many great shots of this famous scene.
But I took this with my Sony DSC-HX80.
A nice little camera – but not Pro level.
And if I really knew how to operate that thing the photo would likely have been better.
Yet it’s almost impossible to take a lousy pic up there.
I was hoping to get a nice reflection shot, but there was too much wind and rain.
Still nice.
We’ll be posting some more soon. Rose took a number of great shots.
Below is Peter Gales‘ famous photo of Spirit Island “Maligne Lake“.
Peter Gales‘ image of Spirit Island hung in Kodak’s Colorama showcase in New York City’s
Grand Central Terminal in August and September of 1960.
This certainly helped to make Jasper famous.
“The island is a spiritual place for the Stoney Nakoda First Nation, who believe mountains are physical representations of their ancestors. The fact that Spirit Island is surrounded on three sides by the same mountain range is very rare and makes it particularly significant to the Stoney.”
– https://www.banffjaspercollection.com/attractions/maligne-lake-cruise/stories/8-amazing-facts-about-spirit-island/
(1861 – 1939)
American-Canadian naturalist, illustrator, photographer, and writer.
She is famous for her experiences in the Canadian Rockies in the early 20th century.
Photograph taken by Mary Schaffer; artist, photographer, writer and naturalist, in 1907. 
In 1907, Samson Beaver met Mary Schaffer, who had just failed in an attempt to find the route to a reputed large lake high in the mountains between Lake Louise and Jasper. Samson sketched a map showing the route to Chaba Imne.
