A photo record of our trip to the Canadian Rocky Mountains, Banff,
Lake Louise and Jasper, on 2004-06-03 to 06-11.
These pictures were taken
using a Minolta Stylus 400 digital camera, 2272x1704 pixels, JPEG compression.
Photo retrieval using the intrinsic USB mass storage capability
via the Linux generic USB storage driver.
Editing was with GIMP v2.0.0.
Copyright © 2004 by James F. Carter.
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Original images are available on request.
 Calgary Tower, North
|  Calgary Tower, East along Canadian Pacific tracks
|  Calgary Tower, Southeast, winter sports complex
|  Calgary Tower, Southwest to mountains
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 Banff, Cave and Basin, edge of hot spring
|  Banff, Cave and Basin, Alice next to hot spring
|  Banff, Cave and Basin, flowstone entering pool
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 Banff, Bow River Falls
|  Banff, down the Bow River
|  Banff, raft tour about to leave on Bow River
|  Banff, Bow River Falls, Jim and Alice
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 Banff Springs Hotel through the trees
|  Banff, Alice talking to Dennis and Margaret (tour mates)
|  Banff Springs Hotel from across the Bow River
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 Banff, Hoodoos (18 is better picture)
|  Banff, Mount Rundle
|  Banff, island in Bow River, and raft
|  Banff, Hoodoos
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 Banff, atop Sulphur Mountain, North along valley
|  Banff, atop Sulphur Mountain, view to West
|  Banff, atop Sulphur Mountain, view South of town, valley and mountains
|  Banff, atop Sulphur Mountain, mountains to southwest
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 Banff, atop Sulphur Mountain, Mount (?)
|  Banff, atop Sulphur Mountain, nearby mountain south
|  Banff, atop Sulphur Mountain, weather station
|  Banff, atop Sulphur Mountain, Jim and Alice
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 Bow Valley, bighorn sheep, female
|  Bow Valley, bighorn sheep, male's butt
|  Bow Valley, bighorn sheep, male
|  Bow Valley, male elk
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 Bow Valley, male elk
|  Bow Valley, male elk's butt
|  Bow Valley, male elk
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 Bow Valley, Castle Mountain
|  Bow Valley, Castle Mountain, Eisenhower Peak
|  Bow Valley, Castle Mountain
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 Spiral Tunnel, lower section portal
|  Spiral Tunnel, lower section portal
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 Moraine Lake, chipmunk (tail only)
|  Moraine Lake, chipmunk (running)
|  Moraine Lake
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 Moraine Lake
|  Moraine Lake, ice patch and talus slopes
|  Moraine Lake
|  Moraine Lake, across lake, ice patch and talus
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 Chateau Lake Louise
|  Chateau Lake Louise
|  Lake Louise with Jim and Alice
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 Lake Louise trail, with Jim
|  Lake Louise trail, with Jim and Alice
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 Lake Louise in morning
|  Mountains east of Lake Louise
|  Trail around Lake Louise
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 Icefield Parkway, Crowfoot Glacier
|  Bow River, Bow Lake
|  Bow Glacier, feeding into Bow Lake
|  Bow Lake, iced over
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 Pretty waterfall
|  Pretty waterfall
|  Looking back (south) down Bow Valley
|  Overthrust rock wall
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 Alice on Athabasca Glacier
|  Athabasca Glacier drops from Columbia Icefield
|  Across Athabasca Glacier; it's snowing.
|  Mount Andromeda and Andromeda Glacier (next to Athabasca Glacier)
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 Sno-Coach vehicles, with Alice
|  Jim, and other frigid tourists, on Athabasca Glacier
|  Downslope on Athabasca Glacier; note blue ice in the streambed
|  Our Sno-Coach
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 Tangle Falls (next pic is better)
|  Tangle Falls
|  Tangle Falls
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 Sunwapta Falls, initial drop
|  Sunwapta Falls, upper slot exit
|  Sunwapta Falls, upstream section
|  Sunwapta Falls, over the brink
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 Sunwapta Falls, lower slot
|  Sunwapta Falls, Alice on observation bridge
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 Athabasca Falls, downstream section
|  Athabasca Falls, downstream section
|  Athabasca Falls, middle slot
|  Athabasca Falls, cataract and upstream
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 Athabasca Falls, cataract
|  Athabasca Falls, cataract
|  Athabasca Falls, exit slot
|  Athabasca Falls, exit slot and overhanging tree
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 Pyramid Lake with Jim and Alice
|  Pyramid Lake
|  Pyramid Mountain across the lake, cloud covered
|  Pyramid Mountain across Patricia Lake
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 Maligne Canyon, river way way down in slot
|  Canyon of the Maligne River (not visible)
|  Maligne Canyon, vegetation on moist ledge
|  Maligne Canyon, opposite wall halfway to 3rd bridge
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 Maligne Canyon, second bridge
|  Maligne Canyon, the waterfall is somewhere near here
|  Maligne River, lower cascade
|  Maligne Canyon, bright yellow lichen along trail
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 Maligne Canyon, mill-hole in upper cascade
|  Maligne River, upper cascade
|  Maligne River upstream
|  Maligne River, turbulent water in upper reach
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 Athabasca Overlook, Pyramid Mountain
|  Athabasca Overlook, southwest towards Jasper
|  Athabasca Overlook, Pyramid Mountain
|  Athabasca Overlook, southwest towards Jasper
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 Athabasca Overlook, our tour group
|  Athabasca Overlook, our tour group
|  Alice with bus, at Fairmont Jasper Lodge
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 Jasper, boarding the train
|  Onboard the train
|  Interior of the dome car
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 Train looking forward from the dome car
|  Train looking forward from the dome car
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 Scenery from our window
|  Meadow and mountains; moose country, but no moose
|  Moose Lake, again, no moose
|  Moose Lake
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 Mountain near Mt. Robson
|  Mount Robson, highest peak in the Canadian Rockies
|  Mount Robson, highest peak in the Canadian Rockies
|  Glacier, unfortunately blocked by trees
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 Pyramid Falls
|  Pyramid Falls
|  Pyramid Falls
|  Pyramid Falls
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 Little Hells Gate
|  Little Hells Gate
|  Little Hells Gate
|  Little Hells Gate
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 Little Hells Gate
|  Fountain at fish farm, to oxygenate the water
|  Fountain at fish farm, to oxygenate the water
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 Shuswap Lake
|  Shuswap Lake, entering tunnel
|  Shuswap Lake (Salmon Arm), osprey nest
|  Shuswap Lake, osprey nest
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 Shuswap Lake, particularly large osprey nest, with osprey
|  Houseboats along connection to Mara Lake
|  Looking from Shuswap to Mara Lake; houseboats line the channel
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 Craigellachie, site of "last spike" (sign)
|  Craigellachie, site of "last spike" (cairn)
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 Crossing the Columbia river at Revelstoke (downstream, north)
|  Crossing the Columbia river at Revelstoke (downstream, north)
|  Revelstoke: Mount Bagby (named after the hanging judge)
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 Stone bridge from the old tracks
|  Stone bridge from the old tracks
|  Snow shed, for protection from avalanches
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 Entrance to Mt. Macdonald Tunnel. Note the slab floor; the tracks lie directly on the floor.
|  Mt. Macdonald
|  Mountains of the Selkirk Range
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 Stoney Creek bridge, through trees (after Connaught Tunnel)
|  Stoney Creek waterfall
|  Stoney Creek
|  Beaver Valley, north of Connaught Tunnel
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 Along the Kicking Horse River
|  Kicking Horse River (and pannier of goodies)
|  Stream entering Kicking Horse River
|  Kicking Horse River, going under Trans-Canada Highway
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 Scenery along Kicking Horse River
|  Mountains of the Van Horne range, along Kicking Horse River
|  Rocky Mountains along Kicking Horse River
|  Rocky Mountains along Kicking Horse River
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 Spiral Tunnel (lower), where we came in
|  Pile of discarded pallets
|  Mt. Ogden; lower spiral tunnel is under it.
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 Across the Kicking Horse valley
|  Across the Kicking Horse valley
|  Looking back down the Kicking Horse Valley
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 Mountains near Lake Louise
|  Mountains near Lake Louise
|  Mountains near Lake Louise (through trees)
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 Skyline along Bow River near Banff
|  Skyline along Bow River near Banff
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