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June 20th 2016 – My New Canon 1DX

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Today I picked up my new to me Canon 1DX to replace my aging Canon 5D Mark II. It’s a very low shutter count camera I purchased used with less than 20k shutter cycles. I messed around with it for a bit in Glenmore Park and the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary. I’m very impressed with this camera. It has some of the best colour accuracy, auto focusing, and image metering I’ve ever seen. I’m still getting the hang of it as all the button locations have changed, and the menu’s are more complicated, but I managed to get some decent bird photos.

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June 4th 2016 – Bourgeau Hike

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Today I went for a hike to Bourgeau Lake with a colleague of mine from work. The trail wasn’t very busy, but it was a little muddy towards the top. The trail is switchback after switchback, getting more difficult the closer you get to the lake. The last 300 metres of the 725 metre elevation gain occurs in the last 1.75 km of the trail.

When we got to the lake we relaxed and had our lunch, and were watching Pika’s try to steal food from my backpack, and the backpacks from other hikers. After lunch we climbed up a bit further to see a slightly better view of the lake. I was absolutely blown away by the sheer beauty of the glacial fed lake. The colours were so vibrant!

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May 23rd 2016 – Glenmore Ranch Provincial Park

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Today I went for a nice 5km walk through Glenmore Ranch Provincial Park with my friend Sara. I can’t believe I’ve not been here before, even though it is so close to home. She was the one who came up with the idea, and I’m glad we went. Originally this weekend we were supposed to go and hike Bourgeau, near Banff, but the weather didn’t cooperate. The weather still didn’t cooperate, but at least this was close to home. The sky was very overcast, and it was raining a fair amount, but it made for some pretty stunning photographs.

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May 17th 2016 – Ink Pots Hike

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On Saturday May 14th I completed three hikes; Paint Pots, Johnston Canyon, and Ink pots. You can see my blog post about the Paint Pots here. You can see my blog post about Johnston Canyon here.

After the Upper Falls on the Johnston Canyon hike I continued up a few more kilometres up a steady climb. It was starting to warm up as it was mid day. I ended up having to take off a few layers of clothes at this point. About a kilometer before the paint pots the trail actually drops a significant amount and then you come to the Paint Pots. The Paint Pots are in a beautiful valley surrounded by mountains. Words can’t describe the beauty!

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May 15th 2016 –Johnston Canyon Hike

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On Saturday May 14th I completed three hikes; Paint Pots, Johnston Canyon, and Ink pots. You can see my blog post about the Paint Pots here. Today’s post is about Johnston Canyon. This hike is one of Alberta’s most famous hikes. It’s quite a beautiful hike, albeit short. The only thing that bothered me was there was way too many tourists. The hike starts off walking along a metal bridge (pathway) built into the side of a cliff. The pathway ends after about 1.1km at the Lower Falls. These falls are absolutely stunning!

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After the Lower Falls the hike continues upwards for another 1.6 km, but this time on a path, rather than the metal bridge (pathway). The Upper Falls even had some snow still! The crowd’s of people started to die down the further up I went from the Lower Falls.IMG_2723IMG_2731IMG_2759IMG_2768IMG_2777IMG_2784

I continued further along the hiking trail to the Ink Pots, but look for tomorrow’s post about the Ink Pots!

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May 14th 2016 – Paint Pots Hike

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Today I went on a beautiful, but short hike in British Columbia. It is a one kilometer hike, but is one of the most unique sceneries I’ve seen in my life. The Indian’s used to travel here to obtain the “red earth”. The yellow ochre was cleaning, kneaded with water into walnut-sized balls and flattened into cakes. The cakes were then baked in a fire, then ground into a powder. The red powder was then mixed with fish oil or animal grease and used in painting bodies, teepees, clothing, and pictures on rocks.

The paint pots resulted from the accumulation of iron oxide or hydroxide around the rim of a pool. As the rim grew, the pool got deeper. The increased pressure of water in the pool became greater than the force of the water in the spring, causing the spring to seek a new outlet. When this happened, the pot eventually dried up, forming a choked cone.

Mining of iron oxide was attempted in the 1920’s, but was not considered viable due to economic and ecological reasons.

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May 7th 2016 – Cold War Bunker & Heart Creek Hike

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Today I went on two hikes with my friend Carissa. The first hike was to a Cold War Bunker at Lac Des Arcs, near Canmore, Alberta. The hike was quite easy; two kilometres each way, with only about 100 metres of elevation gain. It took approximately half an hour to get to the bunker. I had fairly high expectations, but I was quite blown away when we got there. We even saw a Pack Rat living in the bunker.

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After we finished looking inside the bunker we went back to the parking lot where we parked, and started on the Heart Creek Hike, which was on the other end of the parking lot. The hike to the waterfall at the end of the Heart Creek Hike took about an hour. We saw a bunch of people rock climbing along the way. When we got to the end of the hike you could hear the waterfall, but couldn’t see it. I took off my shoes and climbed into the water with my camera and climbed about 20 feet up some rocks to see the waterfall around a corner. I’m glad I did, because it was quite beautiful. We even saw a very cute teacup Chihuahua.

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