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Prairie Mountain (700 m elev. gain)

Prairie Mtn.

Nakoda and Wilson on Prairie Mountain at end of October.

Prairie Mtn.

‘Summer’ with trick-or-treaters on Prairie Mtn.

Mt. Livingstone (720 m elev. gain)

On ascent ridge of Mt. Livingstone in mid-October. Crowsnest Mtn. in distance right of the bump.

Large summit cairn.

Sparrowhawk Tarns (630 m elev. gain)

View to SW above Spray Lakes Reservoir in mid-October.

View to North – Big Sister Peak.

View of Mt. Assiniboine, at 11,870ft (3618m) the highest peak in the Southern Canadian Rockies, from the Smith-Dorrien Trail.

Ben’s Hill (425 m elev. gain)

View of Prairie Mountain from Ben’s Hill, accessed via a mountain bike trail loop (Loamzilla, U-Shoulda and Elbow) in mid-October.

Maybe Ben piled these rocks around the tree many decades ago judging by the erosion of the stump around their edges.

Little Arethusa (500 m elev. gain)

Kona on Little Arethusa at 8:30 am in August to beat the heat. Mt. Rae at left and Mt. Arethusa at right behind.

View to north at Ptarmigan Cirque trail.

View to west of HIghwood Ridge, Grizzly Ridge and Mt. Tyrwhitt.

View to south of Storm Mountain and Highway 40.

View to SE of “Three Finches”. Kona’s “grandad” traversed these peaks on a circuitous way to Mt. Arethusa in October 1988. Glenn Naylor, Kananaskis Park warden, had left 3 registers on these peaks Aug 7, 1988 and named them for the hundreds of grey-crowned rosy finches he saw in the cirque on the way up.