I have mixed feelings revisiting Waterton - which is my plan for the next few days on Flickr - following the devastating 2017 forest fire that reduced its forests to charcoal. I know this is a healthy process for the long term, but I don't have a long term window of opportunity left, and will never see Waterton again looking remotely like it did when I first hiked there in 1978. As of last summer, most of the trails were inaccessible, and the two main access roads into the mountains were closed to vehicular traffic. I might go and take a look this spring; not sure.
At any rate, here's a shot from June 2017, two months before the fire. Red argillite lining both sides of Red Rock Canyon. In years past, I hiked several thousand feet above this elevation, up to Avion Ridge, where ancient sea bed ripples in red argillite now sit more than 7,000 feet above sea level, and the views go on forever. I'll try to get a couple of those shots into the mix later this week.
Photographed in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2017 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
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