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Blowdown Lake, 2-3 Oct 2021

24 Jun 202224 Jun 2022 ~ AndyG ~ Leave a comment

Opinion: One of my favourite fallback areas to explore, especially when I'm out of other ideas or options. An easy hike in to the lake, although good camping spots are at a premium (especially when conditions are as damp as they were at the time of our trip), with several great destinations to visit. A … Continue reading Blowdown Lake, 2-3 Oct 2021

Blowdown Pass, 22-23 Jun 2019

29 Jun 2019 ~ AndyG ~ Leave a comment

Opinion As a Plan B for the weekend it was superb, but this area is definitely a Plan A kind of place. Easy hike in, gorgeous flowers and lake, and a couple of easy ways to get good views: going as far as the sub-summit on Gott Peak offers up vast views all around. I … Continue reading Blowdown Pass, 22-23 Jun 2019

Gott Peak, 3 Jul 2010

3 Jul 201022 Mar 2021 ~ AndyG ~ Leave a comment

Some hikes come about as a result of tossing ideas about; some hikes just beg to be done when the time is right. This is one of the latter. With an upcoming trip to the UK where we'd most likely not see a single mountain, I had to satisfy my craving to 1) see glacier … Continue reading Gott Peak, 3 Jul 2010

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A sub-peak of Scarab Peak towers above Mummy Lake. So far that day we'd enjoyed a tour of several Egypt-themed lakes (Pharaoh, Egypt, and Scarab) and Mummy was our penultimate lake of our hike. All of the lakes were spectacular and well worth visiting, regardless of what the Copelands say in their guide book.
We've just got back from 6 days of awesome backpacking in Banff National Park, covering 100 km and gaining 4400 m of elevation. Naturally we took a bazillion photos and haven't looked at them yet, but here's one from my phone that i like, taken on our last night when we had this lake all to ourselves. Apart from the loon, of course. And the mosquitoes. So many mosquitoes...
Scenes from a pair of ferry journeys - heading to Vancouver Island last week we were treated to a gorgeous sunset over the ocean. I was hoping to see the almost full moon rise over Lummi Island behind us but some low-lying cloud got in the way - the moon is just about visible in the third photo.
I hiked the trail to Elk Mountain and Mount Thurston at the weekend, getting an early start to avoid the crowds, and seeing all the flowers covered in thousands of tiny droplets of dew. This glacier lily was but one example.
Possibly our closest bear encounter yet - we were less than 10 metres from the bear at its closest - this young black bear was far too comfortable around a large crowd of hikers.

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