My foks were in town last weekend so I decided to take them for a little hike in the mountains to Ptarmigan Cirque. It's a 4.5 km round trip with 214 m elevation gain, rated easy. I think we did it in about 1 1/2 hours at a leisurely pace and with a brief mountain goat delay. It's a bit of a further drive than we originally anticipated - about 1 hr 45 min from Calgary, but it was a gorgeous day... and we still managed to make it back home before my yogurt was done cooking!
Ptarmigan Cirque from HWY 40, Highwood Pass:
Dad after the big climb... the wind was quite cool to start, but right after this point we were all peeling off layers.
Mom ascending:
Mom, Dad, and Kali entering the cirque:
A bit of remnant snow. It had snowed in the mountains a few days before, but judging from the compaction and debris on the top of this bit it's probably a remnant from last winter:
Not only was there snow, but the vegetation is also beginning to change pretty colours around here:
Not only was there snow, but the vegetation is also beginning to change pretty colours around here:
Kali posing, grumpily. She was being very pouty at this point because she was leashed (removed for the shot) and I wouldn't let her play with the mountain sheep grazing in the cirque:
Yep... these sheep. There were about a dozen of them... at first hanging out next to the trail as we hiked up. At first I thought they were goats because of the straightish horns... but if you see the Little Arethusa (same vicinity) pics you can see they're definitely sheep.
... but as we came down they decided to hang out on the trail instead. It took them a while before they decided to wander off and we could get down without bothering them.
View down the valley with sheep grazing in the meadow (brownish dots centre):
The trail out:
2 comments:
Awww - not playing with the goats must have been torture for poor Kali! What another gorgeous day and hike you had though. All the more reason for me to get my butt back up to Cow-town for a visit!
Hi,
My name is Lise and I am assisting multimedia productions at the Royal Ontario Museum with the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame project, part of the new Suite of Earth Sciences galleries that are opening later this year at the Museum. I know this is an odd way to contact you, but I saw your photos of Cornwallis Island and would like your permission to use some of your images.
The Canadian Mining Hall of Fame installation will consist of a large-screen interactive display presenting a virtual tour of mining in Canada, told through biographies and short documentaries about mineral resources. The documentaries are organized by the stories of individual elements that are mined in Canada that are crucial to daily life. These videos will show the use of everyday objects as the entry point into the story of mining. In each of the mining stories we will be touching on the key regions for the major minerals.
We are currently working on the Lead documentary video and would like to use some of your shots of the Island in this video. Please let me know (email listed below) if this is possible.
We are under a tight deadline, hoping to have all the visuals by the end of the month, so if you could let me know as soon as possible that would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Lise Sorokopud
lises@rom.on.ca
Digital Assets Coordinator Assistant
Royal Ontario Museum
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