When I was shooting the photo below there were two other photographers with SLR cameras. This situation happened frequently during the rest of my trip. This is the big difference with my trip to Vermont, last year. Over there I mostly met people with compact cameras.
The most important lakes in Kananaskis are the upper and lower Kananaskis Lakes. Since there were a few clouds I had to wait for nearly 45 minutes before I could take the shot below at the Lower Kananaskis Lake. I was waiting for the shot were both the mountains and the bushes directly in front of the camera would be lit by the sun. The special gloves I wrote about a week ago, already proved to be valuable.
By the end of the day I had to head for Banff. Since I had a few extra hours to spend, I choose the Smith-Dorrien / Spray trail. A gravel road trough an isolated part of Kananaskis. Yesterday, when I got my rental car, it had only 30 kilometers on the ODO meter. Now it looks like it took part in the Paris-Dakar rally.
I was wondering why these gravel roads are so wide. The width would be sufficient to create a highway with two lanes and a hard shoulder per direction. Once I was doing 60 km/h, I understood why I needed this width. Due to the washboard surface I was not only going forward but also going sideways. The control over my vehicle was somewhat limited. Luckily the shocks of my rental car were only a day old and I made it safely to Banff.
When you would like to know the location where I took the photos, click on the photo and you are directed to Flickr were you will see a small map on the upper right corner of the page. I used a gps tracker during this vacation which was very helpfull in identifying the location.
(Click on the map to get a readable map)
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