Tom Sr. & Jane are in town visiting so we took them on a drive and walk through the mountains. We opted for Rawson Lake because it's a wide, easy trail with a relatively low elevation gain and distance. The horizontal distance ended up being 9.45 km (rather than the 7.8 in the book), and 347 m elevation gain. I don't know what's up with the topo map today but the lakes are showing up in yellow. The grey line that runs along the bottom marks the border with B.C.
The hike started from the Upper Kananaskis Lakes parking lot, across the lake from Mt. Indefatigable (shown below), which we hiked earlier in the season.
The wide-open trail started off along the edge of the lake before cutting up to Rawson Lake.
Fairly soon we came upon this little waterfall:
Tom, Tom & Jane checking out the waterfall:
I decided to take a few pans of the lake. Unfortunately there was a lot of haze so the colours are pretty muted.
We stopped for a while at the lake to enjoy the sun and harass the chipmunk that kept trying to mooch food off us.
We took the Spray Lake dirt road back up to Canmore to give the folks a different view of the mountains on the way home and managed to see a coyote and a couple of moose on the side of the road.
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