Rocky Mountains Photo Tour Concluded

Limestone Lakes

I just got back from my month long trip and have lots to catch up on so for now I'll post this update that I wrote while still in Canada over a week ago. I should be able to follow with a more detailed summary tomorrow.

August 19: This trip update comes from Glacier National Park Montana where I just arrived to spend the next two weeks or so on the final leg of my Northern Rockies photo tour. I’ll be starting in the Swiftcurrent area and working my way down the East slopes before heading over Going To The Sun Road.

My last photo location in the Canadian Rockies was a four day backcountry trip to the specatular and remote Limestone Lakes in Height-Of-The-Rockies Wilderness of British Columbia. Getting there they say is half the fun so I’ll leave it up to the reader to conclude if a 50 mile gravel access road followed by an 8 mile hike on a primitive trail followed by 4 miles of difficult alpine route finding over razor sharp karst formations with a grand total of over 4500’ of elevation gain is fun. Well it was for me, at least after I set up camp. One of the benefits of this location besides the incredibly beautiful and rugged scenery was the fact that I saw not a single other soul for four days, in fact the trail registry showed not more than two dozen people have hiked this route this year! This is in my definition the wilderness in the purest sense. After hiking crowded regulation filled national park trails for the past several weeks Limestone Lakes was heaven sent.

Limestone Lakes