Kona on Wind Tower, early June just before trail closure for Kananaskis G7 Summit. Mount Lougheed Peak 1 behind with Mount Allan at left and Mt. Sparrowhawk at right.
Three Sisters and Rimwall Summit.
Purple Saxifrage (Saxifraga oppositifolia) on upper slopes.
Alpine skycress (American smelowskia)
Wild Strawberry on lower trail to Wind Pass.
View of steep north face of Wind Tower from Gap Lake, Mt. Lougheed Peak 1 at left.
Kona (12 yrs) approaching one of the false summits at end of May, 7:45am, +10C to avoid the expected +30C daytime temperature. No snow on entire trail.
On the ridge summit looking north, l. to r. – Mt. Chester, Mt. Chesmill (The Fortress peeking from behind right shoulder), Mt. James Walker.
View to SW – Various peaks above the French and Haig glaciers.
Mt. Assiniboine (and Lunette) visible behind Mt. Smuts to the NW.
Tent Ridge horseshoe to NNW.
Yellow draba / Yellow Whitlow grass (Draba paysonii)
Showy Jacob’s ladder (Polemonium pulcherrimum)
Alpine / Drummond’s anemone (Anemone drummondii)
Alpine skycress (Smelowskia americana)
Alpine forget-me-not (Myosotis alpestris)
Mountain meadow cinquefoil (Potentilla diversifolis) above, yellow; cutleaf daisy / dwarf mountain fleabane (Erigeron compositus) below.
Kona on Mt. Baldy in late May, Barrier Lake and McConnell Ridge below.
Midnight Peak to the south.
Early Blue Violet
Wild Strawberries
Saskatoons
Blue Clematis
Sweet Flowered Androsace among the Bearberry
Bearberry
Hookers Thistle
White Dryad
Mountain Meadow Cinquefoil
Cutleaf Anenome
Yellow Draba / Yellow Whitlow Grass
Sheltering from the cold early morning wind on Ha Ling in late May, looking toward Lawrence Grassi peak.
View with Miner’s Peak behind about same elevation as Ha Ling.
View from Ha Ling toward East End of Rundle, showing much of the upper scramble route.
Looking back at Ha Ling from Miner’s Peak.
Remnants of cornice on ridge between Miner’s and Ha Ling.
Kona hearing voices on the chain traverse; group of ascending hikers behind, late May most of snow gone.
Wendell and Wendell East peaks across CMC valley to north; hiked the “West Col” dog route, not the normal scramble route with the chain traverse. 10am on summit to beat the heat.
View from “West Col” of Morrowmount peak (left) and Wendell peak (centre).
View down the scramblers’ route with the chain traverse section visible beyond the snow-patches.
DOGS ON PEAKS 