Canada day 2 - Hoodoos,Castle Mountain and Moraine Lake, Banf NP

[RobertP]

Hoodoos sound good but are just rock formations left when the surroundings eroded. In this picture they are on the left lower third.
They are in the Bow river valley and getting any nearer looked a bit steep.

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and this is the view to the right. It was spitting rain at the time and i couldn't do much about the bright sky.
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The weather is changeable around mountains and walking back the sun was coming out on this mountain which was to the right of the shot above.
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The dominant feature of the area is Castle mountain. Took quite a while to drive past. Capturing the scale of it is impossible.
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Having settled into our accommodation at Lake Louise we went to Moraine lake late in the day. thought about staying for sunset but we were tired and getting hungry!
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Coming away from it I could see some colour coming into the clouds so took a couple looking back from the road.
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so that is day 2 finished...only 14 more to go.

 

[Gandhi]

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Another lovely set of images Robert, I think you've dealt with the high contrast vewry well!

 

[irw1]

Fantastic scenery, very well captured. No 6 is my personal fav. Enjoy the rest of the holiday, looking forward to seeing more.

 

[macker]

What an amazing place

Really like No.6 too, beautiful photograph

 

[taxi]

 

[zeroeseight]

Awe-inspiring scenery.

 

[I MAG images]

Nice images Rob, I have been to Banff 4 times, but have never seen any of the lakes un-frozen. I have just come back from Switzerland and will post some of my shots when I get time. Ian

PS. My favourite Lake name is Minniwanka

 

[simonkit]

Nice shots - great to see Banff again, just spent part of my honeymoon there. We did the "hoodoo trial" & encountered a rather aggresive Elk in the forest, SCARY experience !!

Never made it to Moraine, we visited Lake Louise instead although I believe Moraine is even more spectacular ?

simon

 

[RobertP]

We did the "hoodoo trial" & encountered a rather aggresive Elk

Guess it would be with an aggressive Elk

Hoodoos don't look much from the top of the valley so we didn't do the trail... and it was spitting of rain.

Not a lot to choose between the Lakes. Moraine has less tourists... but still quite a lot. The drive to it is nice as well as the lake itself. Seems a long way with the slow speed limit. We stayed near Lake Louise in cabin type accommodation. Woke up one morning to see Elk just outside the window.

 

[simonkit]

Hoodoos don't look much from the top of the valley QUOTE]

We walked down to them but as you say, not too impressive - we had been spoilt though as we'd just visited Bryce Canyon the week before, now they are spectacular Hoodoos !!

simon

 

[Hawker]

Bryce Cayon, can't beat a bit of 'Hoodoo Hugging'

On a serious point, great pictures, I've just got back from the East coast of Canada, and now I've got to add this part of Canada to my wish list, what a superb place. I've got to agree capturing the scale of it is almost impossible, sometimes pictures just don't do it justice.