Canadian Rockies Photo Gallery (1996)

My 1996 summer began with me hitchhiking from Ottawa all the way out to Calgary (only took me two days!). I met some interesting people along the way, especially Brad the drummer and Rod the trucker, both from Winnipeg. Brad picked me up in Renfrew, Ontario, and let me do my fair share of driving, especially during that 8 hour detour because of a wiped out bridge. He also allowed me to stay overnight at his place and makes a mean alfredo sauce. That was cool of him. Rod took me aboard his truck just outside of Winnipeg and trusted me enough to let me try out his rig (after showing me how to change gears). Quite an experience, made my trip!

These are pictures taken during many trips out towards the Rockies, in the company of good friends. The superb scenery in the mountains was all I needed to burn a lot of film. Just sit back and enjoy.

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Looking down towards Banff.

Great scenery around lake Minnewanka.

The following pics were taken on a trip through Johnson Canyon in Banff National Park. During rainstorms, it's advised not to hiked this trail because water levels can shoot up several meters in a matter of hours. A channel of coarse material, deposited owing to the loss of competence of the river once it isn't constrained by the canyon anymore, greets hikers on their way in.

At the end of the day, hiking out of the canyon.

These things are literally all over the place!

The badlands, near the town of Drumheller, form a semi-desertic region where fossil hunters abound. Here, you can spend days just going through the rubble and find such fossilised remains as leaves, pieces of wood, twigs, and assorted dinosaur bones.

Typical landscape in the badlands around Drumheller, Alberta.

The Icefield Parkway stretches between Banff and Jasper, Alberta. The scenery, as you will see, is something else. Wherever you look, there's something breathtaking. Our main destination for this trip was the Athabasca Glacier. Once there, a short hike got us to the top, where the glacier meets the Columbia Icefield. It's a good thing that we were dressed up for the occasion because the wind is quite chilly, even during the summer months!

	Spectacular scenery driving home on the Icefield Parkway.		Glacial striations on bedrock at the snout of the glacier.
	View of one of the many frontal moraines as you drive up to the Athabasca Glacier.		A stream of meltwater flowing down a rill.
	A debris cone along the parkway.

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