Paget Fire Lookout (510m elev. gain)

Kona at the lookout in mid-June – view up Lake O’Hara valley with, l. to r.: Mts. Victoria North, Huber, Wiwaxy, Biddle and Schaffer in the distance.

View down Kickinghorse Valley toward Field. BC and Mt. Stephen.

Cathedral Mtn. and Cathedral Crags.

yellow Columbine (Aquilegia flavescens)

Early Blue Violet (Viola adunca)

Western or Few-flowered Anemone maybe

White Dryad / White Mountain Avens (Dryas octopetala)

Wind Tower (1,000 m elev. gain)

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.

Kent Ridge (706 m elev. gain)

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.

Ha Ling and Miner’s Peak (860 m elev. gain)

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.