Posted December 22, 2012:
Built in the days before there were highways or roads in this area, this trading post on the Fraser River offered supplies and freight services to prospectors looking for gold. It is located at the south end of the Giscome Portage, a trail that led overland to the headwaters of the Peace River and Arctic watershed.
View the map and introduction to this virtual tour of thirteen panoramas. Click on the preview image below to go directly to the tour.
Posted December 28, 2011:
Seventy-five million years ago this area was a lush semi-tropical swamp, teeming with turtles, crocodiles and dinosaurs. The park is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, protected because it is a rich source of complete, fossilized dinosaur skeletons.
View a map of this area. I hope you enjoy this nine-panorama tour.
Posted December 22, 2011:
The massive, multi-peaked Mount Kerkeslin dominates the Athabasca Valley on the Icefields Parkway. Further south, we follow the Sunwapta Valley. Explore a rock slide and two waterfalls on this scenic route.
See a map of the area. Welcome to the nine-panorama tour.
As an addition to my galleries index, you can now find my panoramas by location on a customized Google map.
Posted December 10, 2011:
A wide, mountain-ringed valley of the Athabasca River is filled with sand, a remnant of an immense, ancient ice-age lake. As glaciers grind over the Rocky Mountains and are warmed by the sun, glacial meltwater carries yet more sand into the valley. During dry spells, strong westerly winds blow through the mountain pass and sculpt the sand into long dunes.
Jasper Lake is formed where the river spreads across the flat expanse of sand. Talbot Lake was created when a long dune separated the river from the rest of the valley.
I hope you enjoy this eight-panorama tour.
Posted October 30, 2011:
In the Sunwapta Pass of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, meltwater from glaciers feeds Nigel Creek. The steep, rocky terrain produces many waterfalls.
At Panther Falls, these clear, cold waters leap 180 meters (590 ft.) from a cleft in a high stone ledge.
Welcome to the six-panorama tour.
Posted October 21, 2011:
How did vertical layers of rock come to line the walls of Allstones Creek?
During the age of dinosaurs, 250 to 60 million years ago, layers of sand, clay and plant matter sank to the bottom of an ancient sea. Over millions of years, these sediments turned to sandstone, shale and coal. Then the immense upheaval of the advancing Rocky Mountains bulldozed these layers eastward and upwards over the bedrock, tilting them on edge.
In Allstones Creek, erosion has cut across these vertical layers, exposing coal-bearing seams on both sides of the canyon.
Allstones Creek flows into Abraham lake about 4km north of the Windy Point viewpoint. View the tour of six panoramas.
Posted October 19, 2011: This tour of nine panoramas explores the changing light and weather in one area of the Kootenay Plains on the North Saskatchewan River. While viewing the tour, click the 'i' icon in the toolbar for information about each scene.
Posted October 19, 2011: Some of Alberta's oldest trees live here, some of which are believed to be older than 1100 years. The rocks are old as well. A ridge of very hard Cambrian rock constricts the flow of the North Saskatchewan River, causing a whirlpool. I hope you feel youthful when viewing this four-panorama tour.
Posted August 3, 2011: My collection of panoramas of the Canadian Rockies would be shamefully incomplete without the inclusion of the iconic Lake Louise in Banff National Park. This four-panorama tour was shot on July 28, 2011.
Posted July 21, 2011: Here are three views from the Silverhorn Creek area in Banff National Park. It's a lovely spot ringed by mountains.
